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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What movement does Armstrong identify as a possible direction for a new philosophy for religion and God?
(a) The Quaker movement.
(b) The Islamic movement of the Falsufahs.
(c) The Orthodox Jewish movement.
(d) The Christian Fundamentalist movement.

3. These practices emphasized the internal journey to experience the Deity and preached the principle that ____________.
(a) God resides in holy places.
(b) God resides in each individual.
(c) God resides in the holy.
(d) God resides in the earth.

4. In 1492, what happened when 150,000 Jews refused baptism?
(a) They were exterminated.
(b) They were imprisoned in Spain.
(c) They were worshiped.
(d) They were expelled from Spain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are becoming more and more prevalent in Europe today?

2. 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?

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

4. Armstrong asserts that the type of God who ____________ is obviously not pertinent nor desirable in modern society?

5. The history of the emergence of the Judaic scriptures can be interpreted as ____________.

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