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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All three monotheistic religions were forced to develop ____________ traditions?
(a) Mystical.
(b) Personal.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Fundamental.

2. Is any further development of revelation possible in Christianity?
(a) No.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Yes.

3. Prior to Augustine's conversion to Christianity, he had repulsed any idea of __________.
(a) Charity.
(b) Purity.
(c) Patience.
(d) Chastity.

4. What was considered blasphemous by Jews and later by Muslims?
(a) Manifest Destiny.
(b) The Ark of the Covenant.
(c) God the Father.
(d) The Trinity.

5. What two philosophers had competing ideas regarding the nature of the Christian God?
(a) Aquinas and Augustine.
(b) Arius and Anathasius.
(c) Arius and Aquinas.
(d) Augustine and Aurelius.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Eastern church the experience of God was characterized as being like ____________.

2. Why were Jews and Muslims able to accept Darwin's theories?

3. Armstrong asserts that the type of God who ____________ is obviously not pertinent nor desirable in modern society?

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

5. The question that was resolved at a synod was called by the Emperor Constantine at __________.

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