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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the twelfth century, European scholars had flocked to Spain to study ____________.
(a) Muslim theology.
(b) Buddhist theology.
(c) Christian theology.
(d) Jewish theology.

2. Where did the newly founded religion of Christianity spread quickly?
(a) In Europe.
(b) In the middle east.
(c) Places in the Eastern Mediterranean where the Jews of the diaspora had settled.
(d) In Spain.

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

4. How is the Kabah regarded?
(a) As the most important shrine in Arabia.
(b) As the most important prayer in Arabia.
(c) As the most important temple in Arabia.
(d) As the most important religious book in Arabia.

5. What became clear to Muhammad regarding the majority of Jews in Medina?
(a) They were also Muslims.
(b) They trusted him.
(c) They were permanently hostile to him.
(d) They shared many of the same beliefs as him.

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

7. In 622 CE, accepting an invitation from the inhabitants of Yathrib, Muhammad and his followers migrated to ______.
(a) What is the modern city of Baghdad.
(b) What is the modern city of Medina to the north of Mecca.
(c) What is the modern city of Jerusalem.
(d) What is the modern city of Cairo.

8. What does the Koran mean?
(a) The Song.
(b) The Recital.
(c) The Word.
(d) The Prayer.

9. What was the belief in question?
(a) Whether or not Jesus was a human person or part of the godhead.
(b) Whether God existed.
(c) Whether man needed God.
(d) Whether creation took seven days.

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

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

12. Who is a distinguished Muslim philosopher in Cordova, Spain who had an enormous influence on both Jews and Christians and specifically on theologians such as Thomas Aquinas and Albert the Great?
(a) Abu Hassan Husein.
(b) Abu Allah Hasid.
(c) Abu Ali ibn Sina.
(d) Abu Walid ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.

13. What city did this tribe rule?
(a) Galilea.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Mecca.
(d) Jordan.

14. The Faylasufs developed an advanced notion of God different from ____________.
(a) That of the traditional Koran.
(b) That of the non-traditional Koran.
(c) That of the Christians.
(d) That of the Jews.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The earliest account of this man's life is found ____________.

2. What had happened by 235 CE?

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

4. What was considered blasphemous by Jews and later by Muslims?

5. In 312 CE, the emperor Constantine _____________.

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