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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI, Islam, The Standing Miracle, | Chapter VI, Islam, Basic theological Concepts, | Chapter VI, Islam, The Five Pillars,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What historical event occurred just as Confucius began teaching?
(a) The birth of Mohammed
(b) The collapse of the Chou Dynasty
(c) The Peloponnesian War
(d) The arrival of Marco Polo

2. How does Islam nail down the actions of humans?
(a) Advised against, forbidden, and allowed
(b) Wrong, right, exceptional, and loving
(c) Forbidden, indifferent, and obligatory
(d) Good, evil, hopeful, and accidental

3. What was the subject matter of the Buddha's first sermon?
(a) The Four Nobel Truths
(b) The Way to Enlightenment
(c) The Wheel of Fortune
(d) The Eight-fold Path

4. What do (1) the brahmin, or seer; (2) the kshatriya, or administrator; (3) the vaishya, or producer; and (4) the shudra, or servant represent?
(a) The stations of life
(b) The divisions of monks
(c) The highest forms of yoga
(d) The levels of education

5. What did the Buddha think about religious rituals?
(a) He taught they were necessary exercises.
(b) He thought they had been neglected.
(c) He invented new ones for his day.
(d) He ridiculed rites as mere superstitions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Muslims justify Islam's history of aggressiveness?

2. Why did Confucius earn the title of First Teacher?

3. How does Hinduism see life?

4. What did religious Taoism accommodate that other religions in China did not?

5. Who profits most from raja yoga?

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