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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Jews tried to modify this theory ____________.
(a) To allow God a certain degree of spontaneity and free will.
(b) To allow God more power over humanity.
(c) To allow God more time to create the world.
(d) To allow God to have more control.

2. After the synod, confusion still reigned in the Christian church with a competing philosophy developing at ________.
(a) Cappadocia.
(b) Nice.
(c) Nicaea.
(d) Constantinople.

3. Muhammad experienced his epiphany during ___________.
(a) The Passover season of 610.
(b) The Christmas season of 610.
(c) The Purin retreat of 610.
(d) The Ramadan retreat of 610.

4. What vision did Muhammad experience?
(a) A vision of Satan.
(b) A vision of God.
(c) A vision of the Angel Gabriel.
(d) A vision of Jesus.

5. The concept of a Divine Trinity is largely the result of the teachings of ____________.
(a) John.
(b) Paul.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Augustine.

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

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

8. The application of their method to the Koran was also influenced by ____________ teachings.
(a) Jewish, Gnostic, and Hindu.
(b) Persian, Indian, and Gnostic.
(c) Persian, Buddhist, and Hindu.
(d) Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist.

9. Many educated non-Christians were becoming impressed by ____________.
(a) The intelligence of Christian leaders.
(b) The welfare system initiated by the Christian church and the compassion and mutual respect that Christians showed each other.
(c) The wealth of the Christian church.
(d) The power of the Christian church.

10. 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 Ali ibn Sina.
(c) Abu Allah Hasid.
(d) Abu Walid ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.

11. Initially, Muhammad's message was to warn the Quraysh about ____________.
(a) Amending their lives and paying less attention to the accumulation of wealth and power.
(b) The coming of Salvation.
(c) Asking for forgiveness of sins.
(d) The need for grace.

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

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

14. A counter movement came into being when the Shiis declared ____________.
(a) War on the Faylasufs.
(b) God's presence on earth was in the form of a man named Jesus.
(c) God did not exist.
(d) God's presence on earth was embodied in some mysterious way by their Imams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Christianity was a religion of __________.

2. What became clear to Muhammad regarding the majority of Jews in Medina?

3. During the twelfth century, European scholars had flocked to Spain to study ____________.

4. Christianity became the state religion of ___________.

5. Bernard's influence outshone that of ____________.

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