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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. What is the phenomenon which emerged contemporaneously with the rationalization of the Enlightenment?
(a) The "religion of the heart."
(b) The "religion of the people."
(c) The "religion of the soul."
(d) The "religion of the mind."

2. The effect of this behavior towards Jewish people was ____________.
(a) To evoke a new form of Kabbalism.
(b) To begin Kabbalism.
(c) To return to a traditional form of Kabbalism.
(d) To end Kabbalism.

3. Karen Armstrong passionately believes that human beings have, in the 4000 years of the quest delineated in her book, always sought ____________.
(a) Power and might.
(b) Harmony and understanding.
(c) Peace and love.
(d) An answer to the questions raised by religion and the idea of God.

4. During the twelfth century, European scholars had flocked to Spain to study ____________.
(a) Christian theology.
(b) Jewish theology.
(c) Buddhist theology.
(d) Muslim theology.

5. What is a spiritual longing for the redemption of Israel as foretold by the ancient prophets?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Sufism.
(c) Safedism.
(d) Kabbalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. A consequence of God being presumed to exist as a separate external entity is that he assumes the attributes of _______________.

2. What is the belief stated in this doctrine?

3. In the west the Christian form of mysticism rested not on imagery, but on ____________.

4. Where did the newly founded religion of Christianity spread quickly?

5. Muhammad instructed his followers to prostrate themselves in the direction of the Kabah in Mecca instead of at ____________.

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