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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What approach to religion does Armstrong advocate?
(a) A fundamentalist approach.
(b) The desirability of a compassionate approach to religion.
(c) A mystical approach.
(d) The rationalistic and literal interpretation of the sacred scripts.

2. What are becoming more and more prevalent in Europe today?
(a) Buddhism and Hinduism.
(b) Protestantism and Catholicism.
(c) Islam and Judaism.
(d) Atheism and secular ideas.

3. At this synod, the modern Christian creed, called ________ was first promulgated.
(a) The Constantine Creed.
(b) The Nicaea Creed.
(c) The Nicene Creed.
(d) The Nice Creed.

4. Armstrong describes a similar wave of religious fervor, which swept through New England in the 1730's and which became known as ____________.
(a) Transcendentalism.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) The Great Awakening.
(d) The Reformation.

5. What does Armstrong notice is happening to the churches in Europe?
(a) They are filling.
(b) They are changing.
(c) They are rebuilding.
(d) They are emptying.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the first three years, Muhammad's message transformed into _______________.

2. According to Karen Armstrong's research, did this man claim to be God?

3. When John Wesley sailed to the New World colony of Georgia in 1735, he was greatly impressed by ____________.

4. When was this account written?

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

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