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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 were Jesus' words designed to cause people to do?
(a) Overturn Roman rule
(b) Show them how to become rich
(c) Be able to heal the sick
(d) See things in a different way

2. How was the "Old boy" of Taoism often seen?
(a) Riding off on a white horse
(b) Riding off on an ostrich
(c) Riding off on a donkey
(d) Riding off on a water buffalo

3. What is the real idea behind the three Taoist senses?
(a) To have something, to make something, and to learn something
(b) To work something out, to expose something, and to define something
(c) To lose something, to find something, and to forget something
(d) To be something, to know something, and to be able to do something

4. How do Muslims view the Koran?
(a) As a history of the Prophet
(b) As a book without specific rules
(c) As a history of the relationship between God and man
(d) Simply as the words of Allah

5. What was the avowed purpose of Jesus?
(a) To fight crime and slavery
(b) To lead the Jews into world power
(c) To heal humanity
(d) To destroy other relitions

Short Answer Questions

1. How is it said that Jews are more united?

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

3. With what were the minor, or writing prophets, concerned?

4. How do Muslims justify Islam's history of aggressiveness?

5. What does Huston Smith suggest is a way to look at the different religions?

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