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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major change did Islam cause?
(a) Exemplifying the different classes of people
(b) Great social and moral change among the Arabic people
(c) Putting women on an equal status as men
(d) Tollerance for different religions

2. What was the major contribution to religion of the Israelite people?
(a) Neotheism
(b) Polytheism
(c) Agnosticism
(d) Monotheism

3. How have Taoism and Confucianism affected the Chinese culture?
(a) The combination has diffused the culture.
(b) The combination has enriched the culture.
(c) Their competition has confused the culture.
(d) Their similarities have complicated the culture.

4. With what were the minor, or writing prophets, concerned?
(a) Social inequities and moral delinquency
(b) Perserving the power of the priests
(c) Keeping an accurate history of the kings
(d) Councils for revising Jewish law

5. According to the Koran, what marks the beginnings of Islam?
(a) A war between Mecca and Jerusalem
(b) Ishmael becoming a prophet of Allah
(c) The angel appearing to Haggar
(d) Muhammad descending from Ishmael

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Roman Catholic church view itself?

2. What is the Jewish view of the God-man relationship?

3. What was a major contribution of Muslim scholars?

4. What was the groundwork Judaism laid because of its view of history?

5. What are the three main tenets of Christianity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Roman Catholic church view itself from the time it became the official religion of Rome?

2. What is the best question that should be asked about religion?

3. Briefly describe the origins of Islam.

4. Briefly explain the totem of primal religions.

5. What is the divergent ideas over the Jews as God's elect people today?

6. Define the major difference between the Roman Catholic church and Eastern Orthodoxy.

7. How did the Jews form a different idea about the importance of history?

8. How did Judaism portray the relationship between God and man?

9. What debt does Western civilization owe to Muslims?

10. What about religions other than the historical religions from Confucianism to Christianity?

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