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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christianity attempted to qualify the highly personalized cult of God incarnate by introducing ____________.
(a) The doctrine of the one and only God.
(b) The doctrine of the transpersonal Trinity.
(c) The doctrine of the impersonal Trinity.
(d) The doctrine of the impersonal God.

2. Karen Armstrong passionately believes that human beings have, in the 4000 years of the quest delineated in her book, always sought ____________.
(a) Harmony and understanding.
(b) Peace and love.
(c) Power and might.
(d) An answer to the questions raised by religion and the idea of God.

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

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

5. The medieval forms of religion erupted into fragmented sects and belief systems, led by such reformers as ____________.
(a) Calvin and Wesley.
(b) Luther and Wesley.
(c) Luther and Calvin.
(d) Baruch and Wesley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a spiritual longing for the redemption of Israel as foretold by the ancient prophets?

2. The Kabbalists still struggled with the problem of ____________.

3. In other parts of the Muslim Empire, the Mongol invasion led to ____________.

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

5. What removes God from the personal human category to transcend the human attributes?

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