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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the teachings of the Northern European mystics affect the religious establishment?
(a) It shocked them.
(b) It scared them.
(c) It excited them.
(d) It angered them.

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

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

5. These practices emphasized the internal journey to experience the Deity and preached the principle that ____________.
(a) God resides in each individual.
(b) God resides in the earth.
(c) God resides in holy places.
(d) God resides in the holy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The development of a Christian mystic tradition blossomed in ____________ century.

2. The original intention of the Zionists was to do ____________.

3. In Judaism, mysticism developed in the second and third centuries starting with ____________.

4. What two philosophers had competing ideas regarding the nature of the Christian God?

5. What are becoming more and more prevalent in Europe today?

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