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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 312 CE, the emperor Constantine _____________.
(a) Tortured Christians.
(b) Converted to Christianity.
(c) Threatened to have the Christians exiled.
(d) Attended his first mass.

2. In the Eastern church the experience of God was characterized as being like ____________.
(a) Rainbows and doves in the sky.
(b) Sunbeams that can be seen by humans without them observing the sun, the source of the light.
(c) Raindrops on the soil.
(d) Thunder and lightning.

3. The focal point for the new spirituality was in the town of ____________.
(a) Medina.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Mecca.
(d) Safed in Galilee.

4. Why are theories and philosophies not designed to convince unbelievers?
(a) There were, at that point in time, no people called agnostics.
(b) All people were atheists.
(c) There were, at that point in time, no people called atheists.
(d) All people were Christians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What vision did Muhammad experience?

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

3. To rationalize the shock of his death by crucifixion, his followers subscribed to the belief that ________.

4. The Kabbalists still struggled with the problem of ____________.

5. The Catholic church distinguished itself when Pope Innocent VIII promulgated a Papal Bull in 1484. What did this start?

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