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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. After pleasure seeking, what does Hinduism see as the next major life goal?
(a) Overcoming illness
(b) Travel and culture
(c) Worldly success
(d) Spiritual enlightenment

2. How does Hinduism see life?
(a) As something to be ignored
(b) As the main source of suffering
(c) As a way to stay young
(d) On a continuum that moves naturally through all the stages

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

4. Why did Confucius earn the title of First Teacher?
(a) Because he was first a teacher and then a politician
(b) Because he taught the Emperor
(c) Because of his prominence in China as a teacher
(d) Because no one had ever been a teacher before

5. How has the Western mind often viewed the Path of Renunciation?
(a) As a life-denying spoilsport
(b) As the best Hinduism has to offer
(c) As the ultimate comparison to Christianity
(d) As an example of good ethics

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hinduism who has the spiritual ideas of infinite being, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss?

2. What is the problem of explaining nirvana?

3. According to Hinduism, what are the two receptors that control the lives of humans?

4. What form of Buddhism flourishes in Japan?

5. What position did the Realists hold about society that needed harsh laws?

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