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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When John Wesley sailed to the New World colony of Georgia in 1735, he was greatly impressed by ____________.
(a) Buddhist monks.
(b) Franciscan missionaries.
(c) Missionaries from a Moravian sect.
(d) Mormon missionaries.

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

4. The instability and lack of self-esteem in the Islamic culture, has resulted in ____________.
(a) The modern fundamentalism in that culture which exists in some areas of the modern world.
(b) The modern fundamentalism in that culture which prevails in the modern world.
(c) The modern liberalism in that culture which exists in some areas of the modern world.
(d) The modern liberalism in that culture which prevails in the modern world.

5. 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?
(a) Immanuel Kant.
(b) Moses Mendolssohn.
(c) Baruch Spinoza.
(d) Max Bruch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did this mystical tradition describe?

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

3. These practices emphasized the internal journey to experience the Deity and preached the principle that ____________.

4. In _________, a group of Jews, called Zionists, fled from Russia and settled in Palestine.

5. Why were Jews and Muslims able to accept Darwin's theories?

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