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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) What religion is the best.
(c) What will happen if fundamentalism continues.
(d) Who God is.

2. Sigmund Freud considered belief in a God as ____________.
(a) Typical.
(b) Unusual.
(c) An illusion.
(d) Understandable.

3. By 1492, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain had fallen to ____________.
(a) The Christian forces of Ferdinand and Isabella.
(b) The Christian forces of Constantine.
(c) The Christian forces of Franz Ferdinand.
(d) The Christian forces of Pope John Paul.

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

5. Now Europe split into two warring armies. Who were these warring groups?
(a) Jews and Christians.
(b) Christians and Muslims.
(c) Jews and Muslims.
(d) Protestants and Catholics.

6. The effect of this behavior towards Jewish people was ____________.
(a) To end Kabbalism.
(b) To return to a traditional form of Kabbalism.
(c) To evoke a new form of Kabbalism.
(d) To begin Kabbalism.

7. The Kabbalists still struggled with the problem of ____________.
(a) Christian intolerance.
(b) Jewish mistrust.
(c) Defining the nature of God.
(d) Declining membership.

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

9. What did this mystical tradition describe?
(a) A journey to the Throne of God through the mythical realm of ten heavens.
(b) A journey to the Throne of God through the mythical realm of heaven.
(c) A journey to the Throne of God through the mythical realm of seven heavens.
(d) A journey to the Throne of God through the mythical realm of five heavens.

10. Back in London Wesley became a convert to this religion and preached his new faith to ____________.
(a) The bourgeoisie.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) The merchant class.
(d) The workers and peasants in the countryside.

11. Despite the conservatism occasioned by the rise of _____________ and the suppression of independent reasoning in the Sunni madrasahs, scholars, such as Mulla Sadr (ca 1571-1640), taught a philosophy that fused metaphysics and spirituality.
(a) The Muslim laws.
(b) The Shari laws.
(c) The Shariah laws.
(d) The Messiah laws.

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

13. Some scholars suggest that the decline of Muslim science marked the beginning of ____________.
(a) The decline of Islam.
(b) Conservatism in Islam.
(c) Decadence in Islam.
(d) A resurgence in Islam.

14. Christianity attempted to qualify the highly personalized cult of God incarnate by introducing ____________.
(a) The doctrine of the impersonal God.
(b) The doctrine of the impersonal Trinity.
(c) The doctrine of the transpersonal Trinity.
(d) The doctrine of the one and only God.

15. The first Zionists essentially follow a religion without ____________.
(a) Rules.
(b) A religious text.
(c) A God.
(d) The Son of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a Dutch Jew who had become discontented with the ideas in the Torah and joined a group of Gentile freethinkers, which led to his expulsion from the synagogue of Amsterdam?

2. Nietzsche proclaimed that God ____________.

3. Karen Armstrong passionately believes that human beings have, in the 4000 years of the quest delineated in her book, always sought ____________.

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

5. The principle of "being born again" and the practice of mysticism-for-everyone resulted, occasionally, in violent ecstasies as witnessed in the gatherings of ____________.

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