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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Implied in these modifications in the traditional religions and their concepts of God is the notion that ____________.
(a) The way forward might be in a unification of the concept of the deity.
(b) The way forward might be in conflicting ideas of the concept of the deity.
(c) The way forward might be in an ending of the concept of the deity.
(d) The way forward might be in a separation of the concept of the deity.

2. What question is asked but not answered at the end of this book?
(a) What religion is the best.
(b) Who God is.
(c) The form that this inherent trait of humankind will take.
(d) What will happen if fundamentalism continues.

3. In the Western world, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw the development of entirely new cultures stemming from ____________.
(a) The Baroque Period.
(b) The Italian Renaissance and the beginning of the scientific discoveries.
(c) The Northern Renaissance.
(d) The Medieval Period.

4. 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) Immanuel Kant.
(c) Max Bruch.
(d) Baruch Spinoza.

5. The new religion of Deism became known as ____________.
(a) Lutheran.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Methodist.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the same spirit of tolerance and acceptance, what formed an important part of policies of the Moghul emperor in 1560?

2. What did this mystical tradition describe?

3. The Safavids rose up in Iran, and the Moghul Empire emerged ____________.

4. The development of a Christian mystic tradition blossomed in ____________ century.

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

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