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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some scholars suggest that the decline of Muslim science marked the beginning of ____________.
(a) Conservatism in Islam.
(b) Decadence in Islam.
(c) A resurgence in Islam.
(d) The decline of Islam.

2. The principles of Kabbalism were enunciated in _____________, a text written in 1275 by the Spanish mystic Moses of Leon.
(a) The Koran.
(b) The Kallah.
(c) The Zohar.
(d) The Zorba.

3. In the Eastern church the experience of God was characterized as being like ____________.
(a) Thunder and lightning.
(b) Raindrops on the soil.
(c) Rainbows and doves in the sky.
(d) Sunbeams that can be seen by humans without them observing the sun, the source of the light.

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

5. Despite the conservatism occasioned by the rise of _____________ and the suppression of independent reasoning in the Sunni madrasahs, scholars, such as Mulla Sadr (ca 1571-1640), taught a philosophy that fused metaphysics and spirituality.
(a) The Messiah laws.
(b) The Shari laws.
(c) The Shariah laws.
(d) The Muslim laws.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Western world, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw the development of entirely new cultures stemming from ____________.

3. Implied in these modifications in the traditional religions and their concepts of God is the notion that ____________.

4. What does Armstrong notice is happening to the churches in Europe?

5. The greatest example of the coming scientific revolution was ____________.

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