The World's Religions Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Huston Smith
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 155 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The World's Religions Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Huston Smith
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 155 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How does Confucianism conflict with the yogi idea of finding God?
(a) Confucius said finding God was impossible unless one became a hermit.
(b) Confucius believed that it takes two or three people meditating together to find God.
(c) Confucius put the individual squarely in the middle of human contact to perfect a social order.
(d) Confucius taught that only through self analysis could one ever find God.

2. How does the yogi eliminate distractions of the mind during raja yoga?
(a) The yogi puts cotton in his ears.
(b) The yogi concentrates on reading.
(c) The yogi concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of all others.
(d) The yogi lies flat of his back.

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

4. Why is the question of "is this all" relevant to Hinduism?
(a) Because Hinduism fails to give the answers to life's questions.
(b) Because it affirms that there is far more to life than satisfying pleasures.
(c) Because Hinduism constantly demands more
(d) Because Hinduism has no beginning or ending

5. When does karma come into effect?
(a) When the spirit is in insect form.
(b) When the spirit has reincarnated.
(c) When the spirit resides in a cow.
(d) When the spirit occupies a human form.

Short Answer Questions

1. After pleasure seeking, what does Hinduism see as the next major life goal?

2. What did the Buddha think about religious rituals?

3. What type of yoga approaches religion on the basis of work?

4. What is the tanha?

5. What is the Zen koan?

(see the answer key)

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