This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III, Buddhism, The Silent Sage, | Chapter III, Buddhism, The Rebel Saint, | Chapter III, Buddhism, The Four Noble Truths,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the caste system, who receives the greatest punishment for wrong doing?
(a) Among the working class, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.
(b) The sin of monks, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.
(c) The lower the caste, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.
(d) The higher the caste, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.

2. How does Sri Ramakrishna illustrate the experience all the great world religions?
(a) He says each experience will reach a different goal.
(b) Whether you climb a ladder, a rope, or a bamboo pole, you still reach the same goal.
(c) He advocates trying out all religions for the best fit.
(d) He suggests that such questions are frivolous.

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

4. When does karma come into effect?
(a) When the spirit has reincarnated.
(b) When the spirit resides in a cow.
(c) When the spirit is in insect form.
(d) When the spirit occupies a human form.

5. The two men Huston Smith regards as having the greatest impact on the world as we know it today.
(a) Jesus and Confucious
(b) Robert Oppenheimer and Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Napoleon and Joseph Stalin
(d) J. P. Morgan and Albert Einstein