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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Was the idea of a personal God developed by all three of the monotheistic religions?
(a) No, only the Jews.
(b) No, only the Muslims.
(c) No, only the Christians.
(d) Yes.

2. The development of a Christian mystic tradition blossomed in ____________ century.
(a) The fourteenth.
(b) The sixteenth.
(c) The thirteenth.
(d) The fifteenth.

3. Why were Jews and Muslims able to accept Darwin's theories?
(a) They are less concerned about the discoveries of the origins of life.
(b) They do not believe in the creation story.
(c) They do not believe God created all things.
(d) They take the creation story literally.

4. The greatest example of the coming scientific revolution was ____________.
(a) Da Vinci's study of flight.
(b) Galileo's telescope and his profound insight into the meaning of the earth's place in the universe.
(c) Da Vinci's study of the human body.
(d) Newton's Law of Gravity.

5. The effect of this behavior towards Jewish people was ____________.
(a) To evoke a new form of Kabbalism.
(b) To return to a traditional form of Kabbalism.
(c) To begin Kabbalism.
(d) To end Kabbalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some scholars suggest that the decline of Muslim science marked the beginning of ____________.

2. Christianity attempted to qualify the highly personalized cult of God incarnate by introducing ____________.

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

4. Nietzsche proclaimed that God ____________.

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

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