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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A God for Reformers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vision did Muhammad experience?
(a) A vision of the Angel Gabriel.
(b) A vision of Satan.
(c) A vision of God.
(d) A vision of Jesus.

2. They tried to show that al-Lah was compatible with ____________.
(a) A personal God.
(b) Their rationalist's ideals.
(c) Their fundamentalist ideals.
(d) Mysticism.

3. Who was a Dutch Jew who had become discontented with the ideas in the Torah and joined a group of Gentile freethinkers, which led to his expulsion from the synagogue of Amsterdam?
(a) Immanuel Kant.
(b) Baruch Spinoza.
(c) Moses Mendolssohn.
(d) Max Bruch.

4. Now Europe split into two warring armies. Who were these warring groups?
(a) Christians and Muslims.
(b) Jews and Christians.
(c) Jews and Muslims.
(d) Protestants and Catholics.

5. Why is a personal God necessary?
(a) Humanity needs a divine companion.
(b) Mankind does not like to be alone.
(c) Mankind is only interested in those like oneself.
(d) As a stage of moral development in enshrining the values of society and thus conformance to its mores.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the belief in question?

2. The principles of Kabbalism were enunciated in _____________, a text written in 1275 by the Spanish mystic Moses of Leon.

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

4. The scientific work of Charles Darwin and the writings of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud led to the conclusion that ____________.

5. The development of conflicting philosophies of the nature and existence of God took place against the backdrop of ____________.

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