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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 suggest as a better way to assess religions?
(a) By studying each one for years
(b) By selecting only the ones that appeal to you
(c) By looking for absurdities
(d) By asking what wisdom do they offer the world

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

3. What tenet of Christianity is rejected by both Judaism and Islam?
(a) The idea that God saves man
(b) The idea that there is only one true religion
(c) The idea that Jesus was from God
(d) The idea of the Trinity

4. What major change did Islam cause?
(a) Exemplifying the different classes of people
(b) Putting women on an equal status as men
(c) Tollerance for different religions
(d) Great social and moral change among the Arabic people

5. What was evident in the bearers of the Good News?
(a) That they were uneducated
(b) Their release from fear, guilt, and ego
(c) They all had university degrees
(d) The different way they dressed

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

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

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

9. How can the gods of cultures other than the Jewish people be described?
(a) Idealstic, ethereal, and silent
(b) Personal, effective, and powerful
(c) Loving, gracious, and kind
(d) Immoral, indifferent and capricious

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

11. What was the groundwork Judaism laid because of its view of history?
(a) The justification of totalitarianism
(b) The need for higher education
(c) The eventual use of social protest
(d) The basis for slavery

12. What knowledge does religion offer that pure science does not?
(a) A picture of the human self and its inestimable worth
(b) A picture of humanity as a growing population
(c) The evolutionary changes in man
(d) How humans will continue to develop

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

14. Where did the Jews find a greater meaning in life?
(a) Through revelation
(b) Through philosophy
(c) Through mysticism
(d) Through troubles

15. What is wrong with science questioning religion's ability to answer questions of ultimate reality?
(a) Science has also been unable to answer those questions.
(b) Science cannot find a cure for the common cold.
(c) Science is not concerned with it.
(d) Science has facts to work with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term used by the Australian aborigines for the mystical realm of spirit?

2. What are the three main tenets of Christianity?

3. What is the totem?

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

5. How does the Roman Catholic church view itself?

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