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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. They tried to show that al-Lah was compatible with ____________.
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Their rationalist's ideals.
(c) A personal God.
(d) Their fundamentalist ideals.

2. Is any further development of revelation possible in Christianity?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Rarely.

3. Who is Bernard?
(a) The abbot of the Cistercian Abby of Clairvaux in Burgundy.
(b) An archbishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
(c) The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
(d) A popular priest in Paris.

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

5. Thomas Aquinas made a lasting contribution to Western Christianity by trying to synthesize ____________.
(a) Augustine and Muslim philosophy.
(b) Augustine and Greek philosophy.
(c) Muslim and Greek philosophy.
(d) Greek and Buddhist philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The emergence of the cult of Jesus from the established church of Judaism was accompanied by passionate dispute, and many disciples of Jesus ____________.

2. What story did Muhammad learn from another cultural group?

3. Prior to Augustine's conversion to Christianity, he had repulsed any idea of __________.

4. A similar intellectual movement developed among the Jews in the Islamic empire who did not accept the doctrine of ____________.

5. The early followers of Jesus prayed _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe mysticism in Judaism.

2. What does The Koran mean?

3. What happens to Sufism during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries?

4. Who were the Zionists?

5. How was tolerance of other religions was not evident in Christian Spain?

6. Describe the Faylasufs' notion of God.

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

8. What does Armstrong say about the Sufis and Abu Walid ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd?

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

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

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