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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The God of the Mystics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christianity was a religion of __________.
(a) Europeans.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) Slaves and lower caste people.
(d) Romans.

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

3. Muhammad experienced his epiphany during ___________.
(a) The Passover season of 610.
(b) The Ramadan retreat of 610.
(c) The Purin retreat of 610.
(d) The Christmas season of 610.

4. The focal point for the new spirituality was in the town of ____________.
(a) Safed in Galilee.
(b) Mecca.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Medina.

5. What happened almost immediately to the newly established Christian Church in the Roman Empire?
(a) It spread.
(b) It was split by a fierce controversy.
(c) It unified.
(d) It ended.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was after his execution as a common criminal that Jesus' followers decided _____________.

2. What became clear to Muhammad regarding the majority of Jews in Medina?

3. 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.

4. What story did Muhammad learn from another cultural group?

5. The Sufis claimed that they experienced God through ____________.

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