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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The principle of "being born again" and the practice of mysticism-for-everyone resulted, occasionally, in violent ecstasies as witnessed in the gatherings of ____________.
(a) Mennonites and Quakers.
(b) Shakers and German Baptists.
(c) Quakers and Shakers.
(d) Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish.

2. The Catholic church distinguished itself when Pope Innocent VIII promulgated a Papal Bull in 1484. What did this start?
(a) The first Holocaust.
(b) The killing of all non-Christians.
(c) The murder of all infant boys.
(d) The awful witch hunt craze that lasted for two hundred years.

3. It was after his execution as a common criminal that Jesus' followers decided _____________.
(a) That he should not have died.
(b) That he was divine.
(c) That he was not the Son of God.
(d) That he was only a man.

4. To rationalize the shock of his death by crucifixion, his followers subscribed to the belief that ________.
(a) He had not died.
(b) He had died peacefully.
(c) He is seated at the right hand of the Father.
(d) He had risen from death to immortality and that he had been, indeed, the promised Messiah.

5. Possibly under the influence of the collapsing Roman Empire and the consequent beginning of an epoch of chaos, what ideas did Augustine develop?
(a) God as the protector of the Israelites and the Gentiles.
(b) The Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer.
(c) Jesus Christ as the Son of God and God as the Father.
(d) Original sin and the separation of humankind from the perfect God along with the necessity for atonement for sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many educated non-Christians were becoming impressed by ____________.

2. Muhammad instructed his followers to prostrate themselves in the direction of the Kabah in Mecca instead of at ____________.

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

4. The concept of a Divine Trinity is largely the result of the teachings of ____________.

5. What does Armstrong notice is happening to the churches in Europe?

(see the answer key)

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