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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. In Europe, scientists such as _______________, published their own theories as to the meaning and role of God in modern life, while, in England, the physicist Isaac Newton extended his opus magnus "Philosophiae Natruralis Principia" to prove God's existence.
(a) Blaise Pascal and Renee Descartes.
(b) Blaise Pascal and Rene Magritte.
(c) Jacques Pascal and Renee Descartes.
(d) Jacques Pascal and Rene Magritte.

2. A similar intellectual movement developed among the Jews in the Islamic empire who did not accept the doctrine of ____________.
(a) The Metropolitan.
(b) The Neoclassical.
(c) The Neopolitan.
(d) The Neoplatonic.

3. It was after his execution as a common criminal that Jesus' followers decided _____________.
(a) That he was divine.
(b) That he was only a man.
(c) That he was not the Son of God.
(d) That he should not have died.

4. What movement does Armstrong identify as a possible direction for a new philosophy for religion and God?
(a) The Christian Fundamentalist movement.
(b) The Orthodox Jewish movement.
(c) The Islamic movement of the Falsufahs.
(d) The Quaker movement.

5. 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 temple in Arabia.
(d) As the most important prayer in Arabia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were Jews and Muslims able to accept Darwin's theories?

2. The greatest example of the coming scientific revolution was ____________.

3. Back in London Wesley became a convert to this religion and preached his new faith to ____________.

4. The first Zionists essentially follow a religion without ____________.

5. Bernard's influence outshone that of ____________.

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