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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 is the problem of explaining nirvana?
(a) It is an untranslatable word.
(b) To the unenlightened mind, it is vague.
(c) It has multiple meanings.
(d) It can only been reached after death.

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

3. What is it that Taoists reject?
(a) Work without working
(b) Quietude as a means of simplifying life
(c) Group dynamics of equality
(d) All forms of competition or ambition to stand out

4. What is the objective of philosophical Taoism?
(a) Figuring out the complexities of living
(b) Quietude that is expressed as pure effectiveness in simplicity
(c) Making something useful for all humanity
(d) Reasoning things out by questions and answers

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Buddha write during his lifetime?

2. At what point did Jesus' followers begin to accept him as God in human form?

3. What area of the world did Christianity quickly take over?

4. What was the avowed purpose of Jesus?

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

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