Part 7

Quiz for Document P7-4: W. B. Riley, The Faith of the Fundamentalists (1927)

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Question 1

According to W. B. Riley, the nine points selected by fundamentalists as basic to Christian belief were arrived at throughA. comparing the statements of faith of the major Protestant denominations.
B. critical reading of the Old and New Testaments.
C. negotiating an agreement with their membership.
D. taking a survey of the beliefs of American Protestants.

Question 2

Fundamentalism holds that the books of the Old and New Testaments areA. incomplete and awaiting the final revelation.
B. inspired directly by God and therefore inerrant.
C. selected and compiled by the Church.
D. subject to critical and individual interpretation.

Question 3

The great American educational institutions had, according to Riley, been founded and sustained byA. Baptists.
B. fundamentalists.
C. Puritans.
D. Quakers.

Question 4

Riley states that scientific discoveries, when valid, would be confirmed byA. debate.
B. faith.
C. prayer.
D. scripture.