The World's Religions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Huston Smith
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 155 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The World's Religions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Huston Smith
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the idea behind karma yoga as work?
(a) Work becomes habit which frees the mind for enjoyment.
(b) You get what you work for.
(c) By concentrating on work with a kind of detachment, there is no time for selfishness.
(d) Work keeps you centered on self.

2. How has the Western mind often viewed the Path of Renunciation?
(a) As a life-denying spoilsport
(b) As the best Hinduism has to offer
(c) As an example of good ethics
(d) As the ultimate comparison to Christianity

3. To what other notable teacher has Confucius been compared?
(a) Jesus
(b) Socrates
(c) Horace Mann
(d) Aristotle

4. What is the Taoist outlook on good and evil?
(a) They are representations of heaven and earth.
(b) They have nothing to do with yin/yang.
(c) They are one and the same thing.
(d) They are not opposites but revolve around each other.

5. What is dharma?
(a) The Buddhist equivalent of karma
(b) The means of crossing the river of ignorance
(c) An obstacle to reaching nirvana
(d) A group of monks

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

7. What sense of Taoism has been most successfully exported to the West?
(a) Philosophical
(b) Religious
(c) Emphatic
(d) Mystical

8. The two men Huston Smith regards as having the greatest impact on the world as we know it today.
(a) Napoleon and Joseph Stalin
(b) Jesus and Confucious
(c) Robert Oppenheimer and Mahatma Gandhi
(d) J. P. Morgan and Albert Einstein

9. What seems to be the appeal bhakti yoga?
(a) Its universality that may be applied to any religion.
(b) Its humanness rather than a more esoteric approach to religion.
(c) Its many different ways to identify oneself.
(d) Its ease and comfort of practice.

10. What did religious Taoism accommodate that other religions in China did not?
(a) Religious garments
(b) T'ai ch'i
(c) Feng Shui
(d) Fortune telling, soothsaying, shamans, and faith healers

11. Eventually, how do Hindu minds conceive of God?
(a) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become animals.
(b) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become constellations.
(c) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become total abstractions.
(d) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become statues.

12. According to Hinduism, what are the two receptors that control the lives of humans?
(a) Those of pleasure and pain
(b) Those of spiritual and material matters
(c) Those of ignorance and education
(d) Those of suffering and vocation

13. What is the purpose of the Tao senses?
(a) Making judgments
(b) Waking up to reality
(c) Making an honest living
(d) Perfecting the te or power as it vitalizes the human being

14. What does the first signpost of the Path of Renunciation which reads "the community" offer the individual?
(a) It offers membership in a larger family.
(b) It offers more lasting value than the self-centered desires of human nature.
(c) It offers a better way to get what you want.
(d) It offers political opportunity to gain more personal power.

15. What did Confucius believe about the authority of rulers?
(a) It must be earned.
(b) It comes through the bloodlines.
(c) It is a necessary part of living.
(d) It can only be maintained by force.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hinduism who has the spiritual ideas of infinite being, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss?

2. What is the Chinese concept of ch'i?

3. How is the idea of heaven and earth viewed in Confucianism?

4. What do the guidelines for right conduct in Buddhism resemble?

5. What is the irony of Buddhism and India?

(see the answer keys)

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