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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Confucius believe about the authority of rulers?
(a) It can only be maintained by force.
(b) It comes through the bloodlines.
(c) It is a necessary part of living.
(d) It must be earned.

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

3. How does Confucianism conflict with the yogi idea of finding God?
(a) Confucius taught that only through self analysis could one ever find God.
(b) Confucius said finding God was impossible unless one became a hermit.
(c) Confucius believed that it takes two or three people meditating together to find God.
(d) Confucius put the individual squarely in the middle of human contact to perfect a social order.

4. What was Confucius' idea about art?
(a) He believed that poetry stimulated the mind and music aroused the spirit.
(b) He taught that philosophy was superior to art.
(c) He believed that art put false illusions in people's minds.
(d) He thought that art was a complete waste of time and effort.

5. What is the Taoist outlook on good and evil?
(a) They are one and the same thing.
(b) They are representations of heaven and earth.
(c) They have nothing to do with yin/yang.
(d) They are not opposites but revolve around each other.

6. How many senses are involved in the Tao concept of power?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Six

7. 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 Hinduism has no beginning or ending
(c) Because Hinduism constantly demands more
(d) Because it affirms that there is far more to life than satisfying pleasures.

8. What sense of Taoism has been most successfully exported to the West?
(a) Philosophical
(b) Religious
(c) Emphatic
(d) Mystical

9. What is the purpose of the Tao senses?
(a) Making an honest living
(b) Waking up to reality
(c) Perfecting the te or power as it vitalizes the human being
(d) Making judgments

10. Under what condition does Hinduism allow for self-gratification of the senses?
(a) So long as it does not harm others
(b) So long as it benefits society
(c) So long as it is only for spiritual growth
(d) So long as it does not last long

11. How do Hindus tend to look at Sikhs?
(a) Hindus tend to look at Sikhs as lost sould.
(b) Hindus tend to look at Sikhs as beggars.
(c) Hindus tend to look at Sikhs as wayward Hindus.
(d) Hindus tend to look at Sikhs as morally superior.

12. What is the central characteristic of the Sikh?
(a) The Sikh seeks unity with God through money.
(b) The Sikh seeks unity with God through self denial.
(c) The Sikh seeks unity with God through hard work.
(d) The Sikh seeks unity with God through love.

13. How is the idea of heaven and earth viewed in Confucianism?
(a) Heaven and Earth in Confucianism are looked upon as a continuum
(b) Heaven is the place where earthly questions are answered
(c) Heaven is ignored completely
(d) Heaven is the abode of the ancesters and should be forgotten

14. What is one way Jnana yoga suggests one can distinguish Self from one's lesser physical being?
(a) To participate in seances
(b) To think of the physical personal in the third person
(c) To contemplate one's navel
(d) To study animals

15. According to Hinduism, what are the two receptors that control the lives of humans?
(a) Those of suffering and vocation
(b) Those of spiritual and material matters
(c) Those of pleasure and pain
(d) Those of ignorance and education

Short Answer Questions

1. In Taoism, what is the concept of wu wei?

2. Who is credited as the originator of Taoism?

3. Who is Siddhartha Gautama of the Sakya?

4. What is the Hindu attitude toward other religions?

5. What do the guidelines for right conduct in Buddhism resemble?

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