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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Kabbalists used _______________ between the essence of God and the God who is revealed by the reality of creation.
(a) The Gnostic and Neoplatonic distinction.
(b) The Gnostic and Neoclassical distinction.
(c) The Vedic and Neopolitan distinction.
(d) The Vedic and Neoplatonic distinction.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Other religious traditions such as the Buddhist tradition insist that the Absolute is ______________.

2. Why is a personal God necessary?

3. The instability and lack of self-esteem in the Islamic culture, has resulted in ____________.

4. The history of the emergence of the Judaic scriptures can be interpreted as ____________.

5. More and more writers and philosophers struggle to develop ideas which might replace ____________.

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