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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX, The Primal Religions, Conclusion, | Chapter X, A Final Examination, The Relations between Religions,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Hindu stages of life?
(a) Birth, separation, retirement, death
(b) Infant, student, career, enjoyment
(c) Fetus, birth, education, work
(d) Student, marriage, retirement, detachment

2. How can the gods of cultures other than the Jewish people be described?
(a) Personal, effective, and powerful
(b) Immoral, indifferent and capricious
(c) Loving, gracious, and kind
(d) Idealstic, ethereal, and silent

3. How is it said that Jews are more united?
(a) In what they do rather than what they think
(b) In where they live rather than how they live
(c) In how they do business than where they do business
(d) In who they know rather than what they know

4. What concept in Judaism changed the way God is perceived?
(a) God as Destroyer
(b) God as Informer
(c) God as the Creator
(d) God as Interpreter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Islam after the death of Muhammad?

2. What is the function exclusive to the shaman in primal religion?

3. How does the aboriginal see the figures of antiquity?

4. How is Western thought different from Hinduism in the matter of imperfection?

5. What was Confucius' idea about art?

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