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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One theory for prophets and their inspiration is that they had madness in them that led to what?
(a) The belief that God talked to them.
(b) The desire to be great.
(c) A psychic ability.
(d) The belief that they had a job to do.

2. Heschel explains that some think the prophets may have been victims of what?
(a) Religious fervor.
(b) Hallucinations.
(c) Mental abnormalities.
(d) Illusions.

3. Whose theory said that the prophets were not talking to God but were making judgments about God's desires from the information they had about God?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Philo.

4. Why did some scholars reject the idea of pathos?
(a) Because it involved emotions.
(b) Because it didn't involve emotions.
(c) Because it isn't mentioned in the Bible.
(d) Because of its origins.

5. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?
(a) He becomes overwhelmed.
(b) He becomes angry.
(c) He becomes compassionate.
(d) He becomes apathetic.

6. What subject area did Philo develop?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Biblical translations.
(c) Biblical prophecy.
(d) Religious sympathy.

7. Who declared ecstasy to be a definitive mark of a prophet?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Philo.
(c) Alexander.
(d) Plato.

8. What were the prophets overwhelmed with in addition to emotion?
(a) The need to go off and pray.
(b) The need for action.
(c) The need to speak with God.
(d) The need to be respected.

9. Heschel says that Moses would have taught what kinds of rules of right living to the people?
(a) Complex rules.
(b) Bizarre rules.
(c) Unusual rules.
(d) Simple rules.

10. What does Heschel call indifference?
(a) Rational.
(b) Unjust.
(c) Evil.
(d) Good.

11. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?
(a) Righteous and just.
(b) Terrible.
(c) Like people's wrath.
(d) Vengeful.

12. From what civilization do we get the legacy that great poetry comes into being through madness?
(a) Greek.
(b) Roman.
(c) Egyptian.
(d) Jewish.

13. What is Karma?
(a) A way of life.
(b) A special relationship to God.
(c) An opposite to prophetic thinking.
(d) A religion that believes in prophetic thinking.

14. Heschel admits that pathos is both a paradox and what?
(a) A divine concept.
(b) A commandment.
(c) Easy to explain.
(d) A mystery.

15. What is anthropopathy?
(a) Personification.
(b) The attribution of human qualities to animals.
(c) The attribution of human qualities to gods.
(d) The attribution of God-like qualities to humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Heschel, the prophetic act takes place when the prophet is aware of what?

2. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?

3. What attitude does Heschel take to other points of view that he uses in his book?

4. In what belief is there no grace or repentance for sin, just cause and effect?

5. What does Heschel describe as not a goal, but a challenge, a commitment, a state of tension?

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