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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 had happened by 235 CE?
(a) The Christian church had become one of the most important religions in the Roman Empire and a bastion of stability.
(b) The Christian church had been banned from the Roman Empire.
(c) The power of the Christian church had ended.
(d) The Christian church had spread to the Americas.

2. The Jews tried to modify this theory ____________.
(a) To allow God to have more control.
(b) To allow God more time to create the world.
(c) To allow God more power over humanity.
(d) To allow God a certain degree of spontaneity and free will.

3. Whose preaching resulted in the belief that the newly emerging religion could and should be embraced by the Gentiles?
(a) St. Simon's.
(b) St. Paul's.
(c) St. Thomas Aquinas's.
(d) St. Peter's.

4. What became clear to Muhammad regarding the majority of Jews in Medina?
(a) They shared many of the same beliefs as him.
(b) They trusted him.
(c) They were permanently hostile to him.
(d) They were also Muslims.

5. Why are theories and philosophies not designed to convince unbelievers?
(a) All people were Christians.
(b) There were, at that point in time, no people called agnostics.
(c) All people were atheists.
(d) There were, at that point in time, no people called atheists.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this chapter Karen Armstrong deals with the dramatic rise of a charismatic faith healer in North Palestine. Who is this man?

2. A counter movement came into being when the Shiis declared ____________.

3. Once "God" is presumed to exist as a separate external entity, humans can _____________.

4. When was this account written?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bernard, the abbot of the Cistercian Abby of Clarivaux in Burgundy.

2. What is Armstrong's pessimistic view of the modern world?

3. What is "religion of the heart and what did this lead to?

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

5. What took place despite the conservatism occasioned by the rise of the Shariah laws and the suppression of independent reasoning in the Sunni madrasahs?

6. What is the Jewish development similar to the "Great Awakening?"

7. What did Galileo discover? What was the result of Galileo's discoveries?

8. Describe the Faylasufs' notion of God.

9. Who questions the existence and relevance of God in the nineteenth century? How do these people question God's existence or relevance?

10. How did many Jews respond to the Neoplatonic doctrine?

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