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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the belief in question?
(a) Whether creation took seven days.
(b) Whether man needed God.
(c) Whether or not Jesus was a human person or part of the godhead.
(d) Whether God existed.

2. What is the belief stated in this doctrine?
(a) The world was created by accident.
(b) The world was created by man.
(c) The world was created by God from nothing.
(d) The world was created by God in seven days.

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

4. What was considered blasphemous by Jews and later by Muslims?
(a) God the Father.
(b) The Trinity.
(c) Manifest Destiny.
(d) The Ark of the Covenant.

5. To rationalize the shock of his death by crucifixion, his followers subscribed to the belief that ________.
(a) He is seated at the right hand of the Father.
(b) He had risen from death to immortality and that he had been, indeed, the promised Messiah.
(c) He had not died.
(d) He had died peacefully.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Karen Armstrong's research, did this man claim to be God?

2. Whose preaching resulted in the belief that the newly emerging religion could and should be embraced by the Gentiles?

3. In the early years of his mission, Muhammad gathered many converts, especially from among ____________.

4. The Falsafa movement reached its peak with the work of ____________.

5. Many educated non-Christians were becoming impressed by ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the differences regarding mysticism in the Christian church?

2. What does Armstrong say about the development of the philosophic theories in the Arab culture during the ninth century?

3. Describe the weakening of Islam during the fifteenth century, as well as a resurgence of conservatism.

4. Why did many European scholars flock to Spain during the twelfth century?

5. What strong religious movements does Armstrong see growing in strength today? What does she think about this?

6. How did Western secularism and the rising dominance of industrialized European countries have an effect on the Muslim religion?

7. What happened at Medina?

8. What led to a rift with the Quraysh? To what did this rift lead?

9. Describe Christian mysticism in Northern Europe.

10. Describe Muhammad's epiphany.

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