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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were Jews and Muslims able to accept Darwin's theories?
(a) They do not believe God created all things.
(b) They do not believe in the creation story.
(c) They take the creation story literally.
(d) They are less concerned about the discoveries of the origins of life.

2. By the end of ____________century, there was a widespread belief among most modern societies that humankind could exert control over the natural world and replace the old sanctities with fresh and new ideas?
(a) The sixteenth.
(b) The fourteenth.
(c) The seventeenth.
(d) The fifteenth.

3. Why is a personal God necessary?
(a) As a stage of moral development in enshrining the values of society and thus conformance to its mores.
(b) Mankind is only interested in those like oneself.
(c) Mankind does not like to be alone.
(d) Humanity needs a divine companion.

4. Nietzsche proclaimed that God ____________.
(a) Was in hiding.
(b) Never existed.
(c) Is in all things.
(d) Was dead.

5. 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 Rene Magritte.
(b) Blaise Pascal and Renee Descartes.
(c) Jacques Pascal and Renee Descartes.
(d) Blaise Pascal and Rene Magritte.

Short Answer Questions

1. The effect of this behavior towards Jewish people was ____________.

2. By 1492, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain had fallen to ____________.

3. Christianity attempted to qualify the highly personalized cult of God incarnate by introducing ____________.

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

5. How did the teachings of the Northern European mystics affect the religious establishment?

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