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

2. What does the first signpost of the Path of Renunciation which reads "the community" offer the individual?
(a) It offers a better way to get what you want.
(b) It offers political opportunity to gain more personal power.
(c) It offers membership in a larger family.
(d) It offers more lasting value than the self-centered desires of human nature.

3. What is more or less the same in all forms of Buddhism?
(a) The rejection of any kind of musical instrument.
(b) The theme of a crossing from the sufferings of life to the wisdom of enlightenment.
(c) The use of elaborate hand gestures to concentrate on prayers.
(d) The idea that enlightenment is impossible to attain.

4. 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 higher the caste, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.
(d) The lower the caste, the greater the punishment for a sin or crime.

5. How did the followers of the Buddha categorize his teachings?
(a) As a religion of regulations
(b) As a religion of suffering
(c) As a religion of sacrifice
(d) As a religion of infinite compassion