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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Armstrong asserts that the type of God who ____________ is obviously not pertinent nor desirable in modern society?
(a) Is a protector.
(b) Is seen as a Father.
(c) Stands in judgment of the individual.
(d) Is loving.

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

3. What question is asked but not answered at the end of this book?
(a) The form that this inherent trait of humankind will take.
(b) Who God is.
(c) What will happen if fundamentalism continues.
(d) What religion is the best.

4. Nietzsche proclaimed that God ____________.
(a) Is in all things.
(b) Never existed.
(c) Was in hiding.
(d) Was dead.

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

6. In the Western world, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw the development of entirely new cultures stemming from ____________.
(a) The Baroque Period.
(b) The Medieval Period.
(c) The Northern Renaissance.
(d) The Italian Renaissance and the beginning of the scientific discoveries.

7. Who was the German philosopher who propounded the liberal ideas of the Enlightenment and paved the way for Judaism to enter the arena of modern Europe?
(a) Baruch Spinoza.
(b) Oskar Schindler.
(c) Max Bruch.
(d) Moses Mendolssohn.

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

9. The original intention of the Zionists was to do ____________.
(a) Intimidate the Christians.
(b) Found a Jewish state.
(c) Provide a spiritual center for the focus of the people of Israel.
(d) Cause chaos among the people of Israel.

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

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

12. The new religion of Deism became known as ____________.
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Lutheran.

13. The greatest example of the coming scientific revolution was ____________.
(a) Da Vinci's study of flight.
(b) Newton's Law of Gravity.
(c) Da Vinci's study of the human body.
(d) Galileo's telescope and his profound insight into the meaning of the earth's place in the universe.

14. The classic texts of this form of Judaic mysticism were written ____________.
(a) In Assyria in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(b) In Canaan in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(c) In Babylon in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(d) In Jerusalem in the fifth and sixth centuries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Back in London Wesley became a convert to this religion and preached his new faith to ____________.

2. When John Wesley sailed to the New World colony of Georgia in 1735, he was greatly impressed by ____________.

3. Kabbalists used _______________ between the essence of God and the God who is revealed by the reality of creation.

4. To what common element does Armstrong point in all the progressive developments in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions and, in the same vein, includes the introduction of the Buddhist worship of the Bodhisattvas?

5. Why is a personal God necessary?

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