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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, | Chapter VIII, Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What two things became most important after Rome destroyed the temple in Jerusalem?
(a) The taxes and the Exodus
(b) The Rabbi and the synagogue
(c) The dispersion and Roman citizenship
(d) The traditions and the resistence

4. How is Western thought different from Hinduism in the matter of imperfection?
(a) Western thought suggests getting as far away from imperfection as possible; whereas, Hinduism avows a purpose of by-passing imperfection altogether.
(b) Hinduism says there are no imperfections.
(c) Western thought says that imperfection is an illusion; whereas, Hinduism accepts it as reality.
(d) Western thought says there are no imperfections.

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. How does Hinduism see life?

2. How is al-qur'an divided?

3. What does the first signpost of the Path of Renunciation which reads "the community" offer the individual?

4. What Jewish writing became a basis for all laws concerning moral restraint?

5. What is the Zen koan?

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