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This test consists of 5 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 Franks.
(b) The Ottoman Turks.
(c) The Persians.
(d) The Romans.

2. What is the phenomenon which emerged contemporaneously with the rationalization of the Enlightenment?
(a) The "religion of the mind."
(b) The "religion of the heart."
(c) The "religion of the people."
(d) The "religion of the soul."

3. In Europe, scientists such as _______________, published their own theories as to the meaning and role of God in modern life, while, in England, the physicist Isaac Newton extended his opus magnus "Philosophiae Natruralis Principia" to prove God's existence.
(a) Jacques Pascal and Renee Descartes.
(b) Blaise Pascal and Rene Magritte.
(c) Blaise Pascal and Renee Descartes.
(d) Jacques Pascal and Rene Magritte.

4. Was tolerance of other religions was evident in Christian Spain?
(a) Frequently.
(b) No.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Yes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The scientific work of Charles Darwin and the writings of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud led to the conclusion that ____________.

2. Western secularism and the rising dominance of industrialized European countries had a profound effect on ____________.

3. The new religion of Deism became known as ____________.

4. In the west the Christian form of mysticism rested not on imagery, but on ____________.

5. The Catholic church distinguished itself when Pope Innocent VIII promulgated a Papal Bull in 1484. What did this start?

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