This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, Confucianism, Rival Answers, | Chapter IV, Confucianism, Confucius' Answer, | Chapter IV, The Content of Deliberate Tradition,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hinduism teach that pain can be endured?
(a) By learning to enjoy the sensations of pain
(b) By certain natural pain inhibitors taken orally
(c) By avoiding situations that have a potential for pain
(d) By focusing on that which distracts the mind from the pain itself

2. Where was Siddhartha sitting as he gained enlightenment?
(a) Under the bo tree.
(b) In a Hindu temple.
(c) On the banks of the Ganges.
(d) On a royal throne.

3. How did Confucius reject both the Realists and the Mohists?
(a) The first was status quo and the latter was experimental
(b) The first was too clumsy and external and the latter was too utopian
(c) The first was too formal and the latter was too undefined
(d) The first was too old and the latter was too innovative

4. What Huston Smith says the book is not.
(a) A book to give a specific descriptions of world religions
(b) A book on comparative religions
(c) A balanced account of the subjects of the book
(d) A guide to base values of significant religions

5. What did Confucius propose as a better way for society?
(a) Redirect thinking into a conscious reorientation of traditional behaviors
(b) Form political parties to work out differences
(c) Forget old traditions and create new ones
(d) Reinstate the Chou Dynasty and go back to the way things were