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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do primal religions draw no strict lines between the temporal and the spiritual?
(a) They are concerned with the preservation of natural and cosmic harmony.
(b) They are not sure which one they are in most of the time.
(c) They do not see a difference between the two at all.
(d) They do not have a concept of the spiritual.

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

4. How does the Roman Catholic church view itself?
(a) As an important branch of Christianity as a whole
(b) As the tribunal to judge all future revelations coming from God
(c) As the doorway to religious diversity in the world
(d) As an agency that gives permission or ability to perform or receive the sacraments

5. What vision does religion allow the believer?
(a) What will happen in the future
(b) Things might be better than they seem
(c) A first hand look at God
(d) How the world will end

6. With what were the minor, or writing prophets, concerned?
(a) Perserving the power of the priests
(b) Keeping an accurate history of the kings
(c) Social inequities and moral delinquency
(d) Councils for revising Jewish law

7. 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.

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

9. 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) 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) Modern religions were the first instances of religion on earth.

10. Why do primal religions defy any form of literature?
(a) It is impossible to transcribe the sounds accompanying primal tales.
(b) Traditionally the story tellers must be illiterate.
(c) Writing stories changes the meaning behind the words.
(d) Human memory is at the very heart of the religion itself.

11. What saves the Christian in spite of his imperfect nature?
(a) The ekklesia
(b) The blood of Christ
(c) The sign of the fish
(d) The new name he bears

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

13. Where did Muhammad make his most converts early on?
(a) In Mecca
(b) In Medina
(c) In Jerusalem
(d) In Cairo

14. What is the sect of Islam that is introspective and mystic?
(a) Sunnism
(b) Sheikhism
(c) Sufism
(d) Shi'aism

15. What is the Jewish attitude toward history?
(a) It highly significant revealing the contest of life that delineates methods of handling problems and taking advantage of opportunities.
(b) It only makes interesting stories and bedtime reading.
(c) It has nothing to do with how life is lived in the present.
(d) It is over and should be forgotten while working toward perfection.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the central essence of the Catholic mass?

3. What does Huston Smith say is the daunting task as the world grows smaller?

4. In Islam, what is the responsibility of the husband of more than one wife?

5. How does an Andean view the landscape?

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