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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, Confucianism, Rival Answers, | Chapter IV, Confucianism, Confucius' Answer, | Chapter IV, The Content of Deliberate Tradition,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Confucius stress about the elderly?
(a) They should be euthanized.
(b) They should be isolated.
(c) They should be venerated.
(d) They should be forgotten.

2. What was the conflict of Confucius' teaching and the mood of the times?
(a) Confucius taught family tradition in a time when individualism was on the rise.
(b) Confucius taught pacifism at a time when wars were increasing.
(c) Confucius taught democracy at a time when feudalism was flourishing.
(d) Confucius taught frugality at a time of extravagance.

3. What is dharma?
(a) The Buddhist equivalent of karma
(b) A group of monks
(c) The means of crossing the river of ignorance
(d) An obstacle to reaching nirvana

4. What are the Hindu stages of life?
(a) Infant, student, career, enjoyment
(b) Student, marriage, retirement, detachment
(c) Fetus, birth, education, work
(d) Birth, separation, retirement, death

5. According to Hinduism who has the spiritual ideas of infinite being, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss?
(a) Only one individual per lifetime has this knowledge.
(b) Only philosophers can possess that information.
(c) All humans already posses these things but until a certain point they remain hidden.
(d) Only the oldest gurus understand these things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way Jnana yoga suggests one can distinguish Self from one's lesser physical being?

2. How might the rise of Buddhism be compared to the Protestant Reformation?

3. What historical event occurred just as Confucius began teaching?

4. What does the Hindu say would happen if the divine base of everything is removed?

5. What is the Hindu attitude toward other religions?

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