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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 belief stated in this doctrine?
(a) The world was created by God from nothing.
(b) The world was created by man.
(c) The world was created by accident.
(d) The world was created by God in seven days.

2. What did this message lead to?
(a) An agreement with the Quraysh in Mecca.
(b) An agreement with the Faylasufs.
(c) A rift with the Sunnis in Mecca.
(d) A rift with the Quraysh in Mecca.

3. In the Western world, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw the development of entirely new cultures stemming from ____________.
(a) The Medieval Period.
(b) The Baroque Period.
(c) The Northern Renaissance.
(d) The Italian Renaissance and the beginning of the scientific discoveries.

4. Paradoxically, Armstrong identifies strong movements in all three religions to ____________.
(a) A progressive fundamentalism.
(b) Liberalism.
(c) A conservative orthodox religion.
(d) A regressive fundamentalism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Karen Armstrong suggests that all of these types of movements in these three religions are ____________.

2. Kabbalists used _______________ between the essence of God and the God who is revealed by the reality of creation.

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

4. Muhammad came under the influence of __________, some of whom were well disposed towards him.

5. In 622 CE, accepting an invitation from the inhabitants of Yathrib, Muhammad and his followers migrated to ______.

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