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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Death of God?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. A counter movement came into being when the Shiis declared ____________.
(a) God did not exist.
(b) War on the Faylasufs.
(c) God's presence on earth was in the form of a man named Jesus.
(d) God's presence on earth was embodied in some mysterious way by their Imams.

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

4. In Judaism, mysticism developed in the second and third centuries starting with ____________.
(a) The God of Mysticism.
(b) The Throne of God.
(c) The God Incarnate.
(d) The Throne Mysticism.

5. Many educated non-Christians were becoming impressed by ____________.
(a) The intelligence of Christian leaders.
(b) The power of the Christian church.
(c) The welfare system initiated by the Christian church and the compassion and mutual respect that Christians showed each other.
(d) The wealth of the Christian church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is asked but not answered at the end of this book?

2. What was a consequence of the doctrine of Incarnation?

3. What approach to religion does Armstrong advocate?

4. In this chapter Karen Armstrong outlines the developments in the nineteenth century which led to ____________.

5. Who was a Dutch Jew who had become discontented with the ideas in the Torah and joined a group of Gentile freethinkers, which led to his expulsion from the synagogue of Amsterdam?

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