This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, Taoism, The Old Master, | Chapter V, Taoism, The Three Meanings of Tao, | Chapter V, Taoism, Three Approaches to Power and the Taoisms That Follow,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is one way Jnana yoga suggests one can distinguish Self from one's lesser physical being?
(a) To study animals
(b) To contemplate one's navel
(c) To think of the physical personal in the third person
(d) To participate in seances

4. Who is Siddhartha Gautama of the Sakya?
(a) The founder of Sikhism.
(b) The awakened one, the Buddha.
(c) The first Hindu.
(d) The author of the Hindu Vidas.

5. How does the development of Buddhism parallel that of all major world religions?
(a) It went into immediate decline after the death of the Buddha.
(b) It saw no period of hierarchical struggle.
(c) It began to wage war with non-believers.
(d) Hardly a century after the death of the Buddha it began to show signs of schism.