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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story did Muhammad learn from another cultural group?
(a) The story of Joseph, Jacob's favorite son.
(b) The story of Cain and Abel.
(c) The story of Ishmael, Abraham's eldest son, who had participated in the foundation of the Kabah.
(d) The story of Noah and the Ark.

2. In this chapter Karen Armstrong deals with the dramatic rise of a charismatic faith healer in North Palestine. Who is this man?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Muhammad.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Moses.

3. Sigmund Freud considered belief in a God as ____________.
(a) An illusion.
(b) Understandable.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Typical.

4. After the synod, confusion still reigned in the Christian church with a competing philosophy developing at ________.
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Cappadocia.
(c) Nicaea.
(d) Nice.

5. Armstrong asserts that the type of God who ____________ is obviously not pertinent nor desirable in modern society?
(a) Is seen as a Father.
(b) Stands in judgment of the individual.
(c) Is loving.
(d) Is a protector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Kabah?

2. The early followers of Jesus prayed _____________.

3. What two philosophers had competing ideas regarding the nature of the Christian God?

4. Implied in these modifications in the traditional religions and their concepts of God is the notion that ____________.

5. In the seventh century CE, Muhammad's tribe was emerging from the obscurity of nomadic life in the desert to ________________.

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