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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Muslim influence increased in scope as ____________ gained hold in Asia Minor.
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Franks.
(c) The Persians.
(d) The Ottoman Turks.

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

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

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

5. Why were Jews and Muslims able to accept Darwin's theories?
(a) They do not believe in the creation story.
(b) They do not believe God created all things.
(c) They take the creation story literally.
(d) They are less concerned about the discoveries of the origins of life.

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

7. What are becoming more and more prevalent in Europe today?
(a) Protestantism and Catholicism.
(b) Islam and Judaism.
(c) Atheism and secular ideas.
(d) Buddhism and Hinduism.

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

9. Was the idea of a personal God developed by all three of the monotheistic religions?
(a) No, only the Christians.
(b) Yes.
(c) No, only the Jews.
(d) No, only the Muslims.

10. 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 Babylon in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(d) In Canaan in the fifth and sixth centuries.

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

12. 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 fifteenth.
(c) The fourteenth.
(d) The sixteenth.

13. In the west the Christian form of mysticism rested not on imagery, but on ____________.
(a) Dancing and singing.
(b) Constant prayer and recitation of Scripture.
(c) The silent, inward experience, where the contemplative had to pass beyond language and the conscious mind.
(d) Speaking in tongues.

14. Armstrong describes a similar wave of religious fervor, which swept through New England in the 1730's and which became known as ____________.
(a) The Great Awakening.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) Transcendentalism.
(d) The Reformation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is a personal God necessary?

2. What is an inherent danger in a personal God?

3. In this chapter Karen Armstrong outlines the developments in the nineteenth century which led to ____________.

4. Christianity attempted to qualify the highly personalized cult of God incarnate by introducing ____________.

5. By 1492, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain had fallen to ____________.

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