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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Huston Smith say is the daunting task as the world grows smaller?
(a) Selecting one religion for all
(b) Finding a place to live
(c) Building better weaponry
(d) Improving human relations

2. What was the scratched drawing that came to identify Christians with the Good News?
(a) The eye of God
(b) The star of David
(c) The sign of the fish
(d) The ankh

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

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

5. What teaching of Protestantism differs from Catholic doctrine?
(a) The importance of baptism
(b) Justification by faith
(c) The need for spiritual guidance
(d) The importance of church attendance

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

7. What is the greatest threat to the primal religions?
(a) No missionary efforts
(b) Passing time and literacy
(c) Modern interpretation
(d) Disbanding of tribes

8. How does Islam nail down the actions of humans?
(a) Forbidden, indifferent, and obligatory
(b) Advised against, forbidden, and allowed
(c) Wrong, right, exceptional, and loving
(d) Good, evil, hopeful, and accidental

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

10. What does Huston Smith suggest is a way to look at the different religions?
(a) Like a stained glass window where differences come together to form a picture
(b) Like the pieces of broken pottery when you drop a plate
(c) Like interference on a television signal
(d) Like an explosion in a mattress factory

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

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

13. How is al-qur'an divided?
(a) Into six books of equal length
(b) Into 114 chapters or surahs of varying lengths
(c) Into two parts of history and laws
(d) Into 99 chapters of varying lengths

14. What was the major contribution to religion of the Israelite people?
(a) Polytheism
(b) Monotheism
(c) Neotheism
(d) Agnosticism

15. What are the basic concepts of Islam?
(a) Converting, practice, judgment, and reward
(b) Prophecy, subjugation, and war on infidels
(c) Birth, life, death, and judgment
(d) God, Creation, humanity, and the Day of Judgment

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Jewish concepts appear compared with Hinduism?

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

3. What is the main difference between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy?

4. How is the length of Jesus' ministry best described?

5. How does the Roman Catholic church view itself?

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