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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The original intention of the Zionists was to do ____________.
(a) Intimidate the Christians.
(b) Provide a spiritual center for the focus of the people of Israel.
(c) Found a Jewish state.
(d) Cause chaos among the people of Israel.

2. The Catholic church distinguished itself when Pope Innocent VIII promulgated a Papal Bull in 1484. What did this start?
(a) The murder of all infant boys.
(b) The awful witch hunt craze that lasted for two hundred years.
(c) The killing of all non-Christians.
(d) The first Holocaust.

3. Who was the German philosopher who propounded the liberal ideas of the Enlightenment and paved the way for Judaism to enter the arena of modern Europe?
(a) Max Bruch.
(b) Baruch Spinoza.
(c) Oskar Schindler.
(d) Moses Mendolssohn.

4. Karen Armstrong suggests that all of these types of movements in these three religions are ____________.
(a) A union with God.
(b) A retreat from God.
(c) An understanding of God.
(d) An acceptance of God.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is a personal God necessary?

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

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

5. What did this mystical tradition describe?

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