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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. What is the idea of the spirit in Hinduism?
(a) It is the exclusive property of the body.
(b) It dies with the body that houses it.
(c) The spirit is eternal and changes its habitation when it outgrows an old one.
(d) It does not exist apart from the mind.

2. What did the Buddha see as the downfall of men?
(a) Selfishness
(b) His sinful nature
(c) Rebellion against good
(d) Ignorance and not sin

3. What is the irony of Buddhism and India?
(a) Buddhism was never understood in India.
(b) Buddhism replaced the centuries old practice of Hinduism in India.
(c) Buddhism never flourished in India.
(d) Buddhism flourishes all over Asia except in India where Buddhism was born.

4. How did Confucius reject both the Realists and the Mohists?
(a) The first was status quo and the latter was experimental
(b) The first was too old and the latter was too innovative
(c) The first was too clumsy and external and the latter was too utopian
(d) The first was too formal and the latter was too undefined

5. What is the result of seeking wealth, fame, and power?
(a) More failure than success
(b) Competition, which is always precarious
(c) Either celebrity or noteriety
(d) A lifetime of hard work

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the question of "is this all" relevant to Hinduism?

2. What is the sangha?

3. What are the Hindu stages of life?

4. What did the Buddha think about religious rituals?

5. What is the Hindu concept of galaxies of finer or courser natures?

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