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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Heschel say plays a part in the message that the prophets bring to the people?
(a) The words themselves.
(b) The man and his life.
(c) The situation.
(d) The way the message is presented.

2. Heschel quotes Samuel to show that what was better than sacrifice?
(a) To pray.
(b) To go to the temple.
(c) To obey.
(d) To honor your father and mother.

3. Why was Jeremiah imprisoned?
(a) Because he spoke out against the king.
(b) Because of his prophesies.
(c) Because he abandoned the Assyrians.
(d) Because he abandoned the Babylonians.

4. In order to aid the reader's understanding, Heschel includes an appendix on what subject?
(a) Theology.
(b) God.
(c) Pathos.
(d) Maps of the time.

5. According to Heschel, the prophets had no ideas about God, but had what?
(a) An obedience.
(b) A relationship.
(c) An understanding.
(d) An experience of him.

6. How does Heschel describe the time during Second Isaiah?
(a) Filled with doom and hope.
(b) Filled with repentance.
(c) Filled with death and destruction.
(d) Filled with tears and joy.

7. Jeremiah was a prophet when what happened to Jerusalem?
(a) It prospered.
(b) It became the capital of the Assyrian empire.
(c) It fell.
(d) It was the center of culture.

8. The author describes what era in the Old Testament?
(a) Early Christian era.
(b) Ancient prophets era.
(c) Babylonian exile era.
(d) Prophetic era.

9. Who was Hezekiah?
(a) A king.
(b) A brother of Isaiah.
(c) A shepherd.
(d) A prophet.

10. What does Heschel claim is God's ultimate goal?
(a) To build a people.
(b) To destroy people.
(c) To chastise people.
(d) To purify people.

11. Prophets rebuked the inhabitants of cities for things that others would have called what?
(a) Unjust.
(b) Wondrous.
(c) Sinful.
(d) Acceptable.

12. Hosea was aware that his relationship with his wife mirrored the relationship of whom?
(a) God and his people.
(b) God's people and their kings.
(c) God's people and Hosea.
(d) God and Hosea.

13. Before Amos was called by God what was his job?
(a) Carpet maker.
(b) Judge.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Shepherd.

14. How does Heschel describe the time that Jeremiah lived?
(a) One of injustice.
(b) One of peace.
(c) One of war.
(d) One of anger and wrath.

15. What changed with Second Isaiah?
(a) The people.
(b) The king.
(c) The weather.
(d) The situation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who died the year that Isaiah was called by God?

2. What did Mesha sacrifice to appease his idols during wartime?

3. How many changes in leadership were there during Jeremiah's time?

4. What does Heschel say the prophets had to endure?

5. What happened to prophets when God called them to do his work?

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