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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Jewish concepts appear compared with Hinduism?
(a) In some agreement
(b) Identical
(c) Incomparable
(d) In opposition

3. What does Huston Smith say about the existence of religions prior to the historical ones of the last 4,000 years?
(a) The world had no religious experience prior to 4,000 B. C.
(b) Modern religions were the first instances of religion on earth.
(c) Prior to Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Islam, people had no concept of religion.
(d) Modern religions were prefigured by the primal, tribal religions.

4. What is the blend that makes up the Jewish interpretation of man?
(a) He is a blend of animal and vegetable.
(b) He is a blend of dust and the divine.
(c) He is a blend of matter and energy.
(d) He is a blend of thought and action.

5. What is the Jewish view of the God-man relationship?
(a) God is only as eternal as long as man lives.
(b) Man is the creator of God who in turn created the world.
(c) Man is subject to temptation but God yearns for his soul.
(d) God will not see the evil in man, his creation.

6. What practice does the Eastern church encourage more so than the Roman church?
(a) Venerating the Virgin
(b) Mysticism
(c) Marriage as a sacrement
(d) Establishing religious orders

7. Why is there no word for "art" in tribal American Indian languages?
(a) Because to them everything is art
(b) Because they believe art will capture souls
(c) Because they do not have art
(d) Because no one has time for art

8. When did the Christian church become the official religion in Rome?
(a) 33 A. D.
(b) 420 A. D.
(c) 313 A. D.
(d) 1054 A. D.

9. What was the main cause of the rise of Protestantism?
(a) Different interpretation of scripture
(b) Eccliastical excesses in the Roman church
(c) Language barriers
(d) Acceptance of Eastern orthodoxy

10. What is the main thing gleaned from reading the Tao Te Ching?
(a) The idea that Tao is earth, wind, and fire
(b) The idea that the Tao is within us
(c) The idea that it cannot be understood
(d) The idea that Tao is of the universe only

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

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

13. How is the length of Jesus' ministry best described?
(a) It lasted four decades before he was crucified.
(b) It lasted thirty years and then he was crucified.
(c) It was short and then he was crucified.
(d) It was cut short by his resurrection

14. To the aboriginal, what is the purpose of the ancestors?
(a) To frighten the children when they misbehave
(b) To return one day to change things
(c) To hold fast the present to tribal roots
(d) To remain aloof from the present

15. What comprised the majority of the major prophets' work in Jewish history?
(a) Denouncing the misuse of ruling authority
(b) Judging civil cases
(c) Giving the Jewish Law to the people
(d) Annointing of new kings

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Jewish attitude toward history?

2. How does Huston Smith classify primal religions?

3. What major change did Islam cause?

4. How is al-qur'an divided?

5. How does the Roman Catholic church view itself?

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