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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 the Western world, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw the development of entirely new cultures stemming from ____________.
(a) The Italian Renaissance and the beginning of the scientific discoveries.
(b) The Medieval Period.
(c) The Baroque Period.
(d) The Northern Renaissance.

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

3. What story did Muhammad learn from another cultural group?
(a) The story of Ishmael, Abraham's eldest son, who had participated in the foundation of the Kabah.
(b) The story of Cain and Abel.
(c) The story of Joseph, Jacob's favorite son.
(d) The story of Noah and the Ark.

4. In 1492, what happened when 150,000 Jews refused baptism?
(a) They were expelled from Spain.
(b) They were worshiped.
(c) They were exterminated.
(d) They were imprisoned in Spain.

5. The Jews tried to modify this theory ____________.
(a) To allow God more time to create the world.
(b) To allow God a certain degree of spontaneity and free will.
(c) To allow God more power over humanity.
(d) To allow God to have more control.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Falsafa movement reached its peak with the work of ____________.

2. A similar intellectual movement developed among the Jews in the Islamic empire who did not accept the doctrine of ____________.

3. Whose preaching resulted in the belief that the newly emerging religion could and should be embraced by the Gentiles?

4. Now Europe split into two warring armies. Who were these warring groups?

5. Some scholars suggest that the decline of Muslim science marked the beginning of ____________.

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