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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, Christianity, The Historical Jesus, | Chapter VIII, Christianity, The Christ of Faith, | Chapter VIII, Christianity, The End and the Beginning,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Jesus' words designed to cause people to do?
(a) Show them how to become rich
(b) See things in a different way
(c) Be able to heal the sick
(d) Overturn Roman rule

2. What appears to be a contradiction in Taoist thought?
(a) The ideas of reality and the supernatural
(b) The three different senses
(c) The idea of teaching the unteachable
(d) The earthly versus the esoteric

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

4. How does the development of Buddhism parallel that of all major world religions?
(a) It began to wage war with non-believers.
(b) It saw no period of hierarchical struggle.
(c) Hardly a century after the death of the Buddha it began to show signs of schism.
(d) It went into immediate decline after the death of the Buddha.

5. What is the follower of wu wei said to be able to do?
(a) Think without thinking
(b) Dream without dreaming
(c) Speak without speaking
(d) Work without working

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the viewpoint of the Theravada Buddhist?

2. What did the Buddha see as the downfall of men?

3. What is the problem of explaining nirvana?

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

5. Who was the person from whom Christianity originated?

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