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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1626, a wealthy Sephardic Jew in Symrna, called Shabbetai Zevi, started a movement in which he declared ____________.
(a) He was the Son of the Messiah.
(b) The Messiah was Jesus Christ.
(c) The Messiah had come to the Americas.
(d) He was the Messiah and that redemption was at hand.

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

3. Christianity attempted to qualify the highly personalized cult of God incarnate by introducing ____________.
(a) The doctrine of the transpersonal Trinity.
(b) The doctrine of the one and only God.
(c) The doctrine of the impersonal Trinity.
(d) The doctrine of the impersonal God.

4. In the Western world, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw the development of entirely new cultures stemming from ____________.
(a) The Medieval Period.
(b) The Baroque Period.
(c) The Northern Renaissance.
(d) The Italian Renaissance and the beginning of the scientific discoveries.

5. In other parts of the Muslim Empire, the Mongol invasion led to ____________.
(a) An end to the Muslim Empire.
(b) An end to conservatism.
(c) A resurgence of liberalism.
(d) A resurgence of conservatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kabbalists used _______________ between the essence of God and the God who is revealed by the reality of creation.

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

3. All three monotheistic religions were forced to develop ____________ traditions?

4. What did Nietzsche teach about the Christian God?

5. In Judaism, mysticism developed in the second and third centuries starting with ____________.

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