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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enlightenment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Initially, Muhammad's message was to warn the Quraysh about ____________.
(a) The need for grace.
(b) Amending their lives and paying less attention to the accumulation of wealth and power.
(c) Asking for forgiveness of sins.
(d) The coming of Salvation.

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

3. Darwin's ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES seemed to ____________.
(a) Support the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(b) Negate the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(c) Enhance the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(d) Question the story of the Creation in Genesis.

4. In the seventh century CE, Muhammad's tribe was emerging from the obscurity of nomadic life in the desert to ________________.
(a) A hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
(b) A life of constant immigration.
(c) Mercantile livelihoods.
(d) A life of successful international trading.

5. 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 Shariah laws.
(d) The Shari laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. In other parts of the Muslim Empire, the Mongol invasion led to ____________.

2. By resolving the question of whether Jesus was human or divine, Christians inevitably had to conclude that _______.

3. What happened almost immediately to the newly established Christian Church in the Roman Empire?

4. They tried to show that al-Lah was compatible with ____________.

5. The classic texts of this form of Judaic mysticism were written ____________.

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