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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Abstracts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question is asked but not answered at the end of this book?
(a) The form that this inherent trait of humankind will take.
(b) Who God is.
(c) What religion is the best.
(d) What will happen if fundamentalism continues.

2. What happened almost immediately to the newly established Christian Church in the Roman Empire?
(a) It ended.
(b) It spread.
(c) It was split by a fierce controversy.
(d) It unified.

3. Was the idea of a personal God developed by all three of the monotheistic religions?
(a) No, only the Muslims.
(b) No, only the Jews.
(c) No, only the Christians.
(d) Yes.

4. The Muslims experienced problems with what passages in the Koran?
(a) Where man was described as divine.
(b) Where man was described as exhibiting human acts such as "hearing" and judging.
(c) Where God was described as divine.
(d) Where God was described as exhibiting human acts such as "hearing" and judging.

5. Why is a personal God necessary?
(a) Humanity needs a divine companion.
(b) Mankind does not like to be alone.
(c) As a stage of moral development in enshrining the values of society and thus conformance to its mores.
(d) Mankind is only interested in those like oneself.

Short Answer Questions

1. A similar intellectual movement developed among the Jews in the Islamic empire who did not accept the doctrine of ____________.

2. Muhammad instructed his followers to prostrate themselves in the direction of the Kabah in Mecca instead of at ____________.

3. Kabbalists used _______________ between the essence of God and the God who is revealed by the reality of creation.

4. After the first three years, Muhammad's message transformed into _______________.

5. In this chapter Karen Armstrong deals with the dramatic rise of a charismatic faith healer in North Palestine. Who is this man?

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