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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Christianity was a religion of __________.
(a) The wealthy.
(b) Romans.
(c) Slaves and lower caste people.
(d) Europeans.

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

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

6. The earliest account of this man's life is found ____________.
(a) In the Gospel of St Mark.
(b) In the Gospel of St. Luke.
(c) In the Gospel of St. Matthew.
(d) In the Gospel of St. John.

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

8. The development of conflicting philosophies of the nature and existence of God took place against the backdrop of ____________.
(a) The Fourth Crusade.
(b) The First Crusade.
(c) The Second Crusade.
(d) The Third Crusade.

9. The ___________ Empire in the ninth century, Greek science and philosophy exerted a strong influence on Arab culture.
(a) Babylonian.
(b) Persian.
(c) Roman.
(d) Abbasid.

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

11. What two philosophers had competing ideas regarding the nature of the Christian God?
(a) Aquinas and Augustine.
(b) Arius and Aquinas.
(c) Arius and Anathasius.
(d) Augustine and Aurelius.

12. The Falsafa movement reached its peak with the work of ____________.
(a) Abu Ali ibn Sina.
(b) Abu Hassan Husein.
(c) Abu Allah Hasid.
(d) Abu Walid ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.

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

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

15. There was now an emergence of Muslim studies in the fields of ____________.
(a) Music, art, and literature.
(b) Art, science, and technology.
(c) Astrology, alchemy, and art.
(d) Astronomy, alchemy, medicine, and mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a consequence of the doctrine of Incarnation?

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

3. Christianity became the state religion of ___________.

4. Once "God" is presumed to exist as a separate external entity, humans can _____________.

5. This city is located in what is now the Western province of ____________.

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