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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. Prior to Augustine's conversion to Christianity, he had repulsed any idea of __________.
(a) Patience.
(b) Chastity.
(c) Purity.
(d) Charity.

2. The Sufis claimed that they experienced God through ____________.
(a) Prayer.
(b) An intuitive process.
(c) Physical touch.
(d) A rational or metaphysical manner.

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 killing of all non-Christians.
(d) The awful witch hunt craze that lasted for two hundred years.

4. More and more writers and philosophers struggle to develop ideas which might replace ____________.
(a) Islam.
(b) Christianity.
(c) The old religions.
(d) New religions.

5. Christianity became the state religion of ___________.
(a) The Ottoman Empire.
(b) The Roman Empire.
(c) Spain.
(d) The Persian Empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernard's influence outshone that of ____________.

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

3. Christianity was a religion of __________.

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

5. The development of a Christian mystic tradition blossomed in ____________ century.

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