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

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) Quakers and Shakers.
(c) Shakers and German Baptists.
(d) Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish.

2. How did the teachings of the Northern European mystics affect the religious establishment?
(a) It excited them.
(b) It scared them.
(c) It shocked them.
(d) It angered them.

3. What did Nietzsche teach about the Christian God?
(a) He is absurd and "a crime against life."
(b) He needs to change.
(c) He is confused.
(d) He does not understand his people.

4. Advances in Western science led to ____________.
(a) A reexamination of the Christian religion and even to questioning the existence of God.
(b) The exile of all non-Christians in Europe.
(c) An exiting of thousands from the Christian religion.
(d) An end to religion.

5. In 1492, what happened when 150,000 Jews refused baptism?
(a) They were worshiped.
(b) They were expelled from Spain.
(c) They were imprisoned in Spain.
(d) They were exterminated.

6. Darwin's ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES seemed to ____________.
(a) Enhance the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(b) Negate the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(c) Question the story of the Creation in Genesis.
(d) Support the story of the Creation in Genesis.

7. When John Wesley sailed to the New World colony of Georgia in 1735, he was greatly impressed by ____________.
(a) Mormon missionaries.
(b) Buddhist monks.
(c) Franciscan missionaries.
(d) Missionaries from a Moravian sect.

8. By the end of ____________century, there was a widespread belief among most modern societies that humankind could exert control over the natural world and replace the old sanctities with fresh and new ideas?
(a) The seventeenth.
(b) The fourteenth.
(c) The sixteenth.
(d) The fifteenth.

9. In this chapter Karen Armstrong outlines the developments in the nineteenth century which led to ____________.
(a) Questioning of God's purpose for mankind.
(b) A renewed acceptance of God.
(c) Questioning of the existence and relevance of God.
(d) Questioning of God's role on earth.

10. All three monotheistic religions were forced to develop ____________ traditions?
(a) Mystical.
(b) Unusual.
(c) Fundamental.
(d) Personal.

11. What is a spiritual longing for the redemption of Israel as foretold by the ancient prophets?
(a) Sufism.
(b) Safedism.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Kabbalism.

12. More and more writers and philosophers struggle to develop ideas which might replace ____________.
(a) The old religions.
(b) New religions.
(c) Islam.
(d) Christianity.

13. In _________, a group of Jews, called Zionists, fled from Russia and settled in Palestine.
(a) 1782.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1682.
(d) 1982.

14. What is the phenomenon which emerged contemporaneously with the rationalization of the Enlightenment?
(a) The "religion of the soul."
(b) The "religion of the people."
(c) The "religion of the heart."
(d) The "religion of the mind."

15. Western secularism and the rising dominance of industrialized European countries had a profound effect on ____________.
(a) Politics.
(b) The environment.
(c) Americans.
(d) The Muslim religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Muslim influence increased in scope as ____________ gained hold in Asia Minor.

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

3. Implied in these modifications in the traditional religions and their concepts of God is the notion that ____________.

4. Armstrong describes a similar wave of religious fervor, which swept through New England in the 1730's and which became known as ____________.

5. Why were Jews and Muslims able to accept Darwin's theories?

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