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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What prophet did God send to Nineveh?
(a) Jeremiah.
(b) Micah.
(c) Jonah.
(d) Amos.
2. The fundamental feature of divine reality, present in the prophet's consciousness, is described as what?
(a) Pathos.
(b) Prophetic religion.
(c) Karma.
(d) Compassion.
3. Heschel says the problem is not that we depict God incorrectly but what?
(a) That we don't know how to depict Him.
(b) That we can't depict Him.
(c) He does not see depicting God as a problem.
(d) That we try to depict Him at all.
4. Why did some scholars reject the idea of pathos?
(a) Because it didn't involve emotions.
(b) Because of its origins.
(c) Because it isn't mentioned in the Bible.
(d) Because it involved emotions.
5. Heschel links divine inspiration to what?
(a) Songs.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Divination.
(d) Poetry.
6. God's anger is great and to be feared, but God is also what?
(a) Just.
(b) Rational.
(c) Vengeful.
(d) Compassionate.
7. What does Heschel say about a reliable diagnosis of the prophets' mental health?
(a) It has been done by others.
(b) It isn't necessary.
(c) He's not experienced in that area.
(d) It's beyond the reach of the book.
8. 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) Spinoza.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Philo.
(d) Nietzsche.
9. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?
(a) Hindu.
(b) Karma.
(c) Taoism.
(d) Islam.
10. What does Heschel believe drives a person's desire for ecstasy?
(a) Desire to leave the every day world.
(b) Desire to be connected to gods.
(c) Desire to be different.
(d) Desire to pray more deeply.
11. According to Heschel, the prophetic act takes place when the prophet is aware of what?
(a) The lack of complete consciousness.
(b) The belief that something is happening to him.
(c) The source of his inspiration is God.
(d) The lack of knowledge about who is the source of his inspiration.
12. How is God's love to man shown?
(a) By showing us what we should do.
(b) By giving us what we want.
(c) By being righteous.
(d) By giving us a connection with God.
13. What cultural/religious doctrines did Philo try to mix in his studies?
(a) Greek and Jewish.
(b) Egyptian and Islamic.
(c) Jewish and Egyptian.
(d) Greek and Islamic.
14. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?
(a) Pathos and sympathy.
(b) Prayer and solitude.
(c) Action and speech.
(d) Love and forgiveness.
15. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?
(a) Union with the divine.
(b) Knowledge of one's self.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Pathos.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Heschel, many parts of the Bible should be looked at as what?
2. An emotional religion of sympathy is more compatible with the prophet's mentality than a religion of what?
3. To what does Heschel compare the words of the prophet?
4. Heschel said that some of the beliefs that the prophets were frauds came from an era when people wanted what?
5. In contrast to the Stoic sage, Heschel characterizes the prophet as what?
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