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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the phenomenon which emerged contemporaneously with the rationalization of the Enlightenment?
(a) The "religion of the mind."
(b) The "religion of the heart."
(c) The "religion of the people."
(d) The "religion of the soul."

2. The classic texts of this form of Judaic mysticism were written ____________.
(a) In Canaan in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(b) In Babylon in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(c) In Assyria in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(d) In Jerusalem in the fifth and sixth centuries.

3. The greatest example of the coming scientific revolution was ____________.
(a) Newton's Law of Gravity.
(b) Da Vinci's study of the human body.
(c) Galileo's telescope and his profound insight into the meaning of the earth's place in the universe.
(d) Da Vinci's study of flight.

4. In the early years of his mission, Muhammad gathered many converts, especially from among ____________.
(a) The non-Muslim generation.
(b) The younger generation.
(c) Female groups.
(d) The older generation.

5. Other religious traditions such as the Buddhist tradition insist that the Absolute is ______________.
(a) An intrinsic part of human nature.
(b) A human being.
(c) Non-existent.
(d) A separate entity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The original intention of the Zionists was to do ____________.

2. Armstrong describes a similar wave of religious fervor, which swept through New England in the 1730's and which became known as ____________.

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

4. In the Western world, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw the development of entirely new cultures stemming from ____________.

5. Karen Armstrong passionately believes that human beings have, in the 4000 years of the quest delineated in her book, always sought ____________.

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