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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does an Andean view the landscape?
(a) As a problem that must be solved
(b) As a reflection of a superior reality
(c) As proof there is no superior being
(d) As just a landscape

2. What is the central essence of the Catholic mass?
(a) The birth, death, and ascension of Christ
(b) Candles, incense, and holy water
(c) Faith, hope, and charity
(d) The death, burial, and resurrection of Christ

3. How does Huston Smith classify primal religions?
(a) As religions which came after the major world religions
(b) As unacceptable superstition
(c) As non-religions
(d) As tribal religions which were handed down orally

4. What are hadiths?
(a) Things forbidden
(b) Islamic headwear
(c) Sayings of the Prophet
(d) Things that have to be done

5. How have Taoism and Confucianism affected the Chinese culture?
(a) Their similarities have complicated the culture.
(b) The combination has enriched the culture.
(c) Their competition has confused the culture.
(d) The combination has diffused the culture.

6. According to the Koran, what marks the beginnings of Islam?
(a) Ishmael becoming a prophet of Allah
(b) Muhammad descending from Ishmael
(c) A war between Mecca and Jerusalem
(d) The angel appearing to Haggar

7. When did Muhammad receive his commission as the Prophet?
(a) Around 610 A. D.
(b) About five centuries after Christ
(c) About 300 B. C.
(d) On Ramadan 1, 700 A. D.

8. What three major world religions come from Abraham?
(a) Hinduism, Abramism, and Islam
(b) Islam, Paganism, and Taoism
(c) Islam, Judaism, and Christianity
(d) Christianity, Existentialism, and Islam

9. What is the term used by the Australian aborigines for the mystical realm of spirit?
(a) The Afterlife
(b) The Great Spirit
(c) The big Sky
(d) The Dreaming

10. How did Judaism affect human coexistence?
(a) Judaism justified the use of slave labor.
(b) Judaism established the need for moral restraints in the danger zones of human existence.
(c) Judaism laid the foundations of communism.
(d) Judaism set the pattern for preemptive wars.

11. What is the function exclusive to the shaman in primal religion?
(a) To deal only with evil spirits
(b) To bypass symbolism and go directly to the spiritual source
(c) To make symbols for the tribe to see but not understand
(d) To teach the youth about tribal traditions

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

13. How does the aboriginal see the figures of antiquity?
(a) As primatives who had to learn everything the hard way
(b) As special creatures put here by God to fashion the world
(c) As gods who made the world
(d) As geniuses that fashioned everything so perfectly in the ordinary world

14. What is the hope of the Jewish people?
(a) The messianic hope
(b) The emancipation hope
(c) The monetary hope
(d) The external hope

15. What is the only power that can face down the fear, distrust, prejudice, and suspicion of man?
(a) Nuclear weapons
(b) Love
(c) Diplomacy
(d) Totalitarianism

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things became most important after Rome destroyed the temple in Jerusalem?

2. What powers conquered the Jewish nation between the 8th and 6th centuries B.C.E.?

3. What tenet of Christianity is rejected by both Judaism and Islam?

4. What passion within the Jewish people did their conquest inspire?

5. How does primal polytheism differ from that of the Greeks and Romans?

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