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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. This city is located in what is now the Western province of ____________.
(a) Iran.
(b) Israel.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Iraq.

2. Advances in Western science led to ____________.
(a) An exiting of thousands from the Christian religion.
(b) The exile of all non-Christians in Europe.
(c) A reexamination of the Christian religion and even to questioning the existence of God.
(d) An end to religion.

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

4. Despite the conservatism occasioned by the rise of _____________ and the suppression of independent reasoning in the Sunni madrasahs, scholars, such as Mulla Sadr (ca 1571-1640), taught a philosophy that fused metaphysics and spirituality.
(a) The Messiah laws.
(b) The Muslim laws.
(c) The Shari laws.
(d) The Shariah laws.

5. What tribe was Muhammad a member of?
(a) Quraysh.
(b) Sunni.
(c) Blackhawk.
(d) Mohecan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bernard?

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

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

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

5. Possibly under the influence of the collapsing Roman Empire and the consequent beginning of an epoch of chaos, what ideas did Augustine develop?

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