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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The God of the Mystics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the Kabah regarded?
(a) As the most important religious book in Arabia.
(b) As the most important shrine in Arabia.
(c) As the most important prayer in Arabia.
(d) As the most important temple in Arabia.

2. Does the expression "Son of God" bear the same connotation in Hebrew as it does in Greek?
(a) Almost.
(b) No.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Yes.

3. Possibly under the influence of the collapsing Roman Empire and the consequent beginning of an epoch of chaos, what ideas did Augustine develop?
(a) Jesus Christ as the Son of God and God as the Father.
(b) The Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer.
(c) Original sin and the separation of humankind from the perfect God along with the necessity for atonement for sin.
(d) God as the protector of the Israelites and the Gentiles.

4. The Catholic church distinguished itself when Pope Innocent VIII promulgated a Papal Bull in 1484. What did this start?
(a) The awful witch hunt craze that lasted for two hundred years.
(b) The first Holocaust.
(c) The killing of all non-Christians.
(d) The murder of all infant boys.

5. Now Europe split into two warring armies. Who were these warring groups?
(a) Jews and Christians.
(b) Jews and Muslims.
(c) Christians and Muslims.
(d) Protestants and Catholics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Faylasufs developed an advanced notion of God different from ____________.

2. The Jews tried to modify this theory ____________.

3. Was tolerance of other religions was evident in Christian Spain?

4. In 622 CE, accepting an invitation from the inhabitants of Yathrib, Muhammad and his followers migrated to ______.

5. Despite the conservatism occasioned by the rise of _____________ and the suppression of independent reasoning in the Sunni madrasahs, scholars, such as Mulla Sadr (ca 1571-1640), taught a philosophy that fused metaphysics and spirituality.

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