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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the avowed purpose of Jesus?
(a) To heal humanity
(b) To destroy other relitions
(c) To fight crime and slavery
(d) To lead the Jews into world power

2. 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.

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

4. How do Jewish people view their traditions?
(a) As unimportant except for the fun they bring
(b) As handles on the real world around them
(c) As the memories of the past which are treasured possessions
(d) As meaningless ritual

5. What powers conquered the Jewish nation between the 8th and 6th centuries B.C.E.?
(a) Germany, Mesopotamia, and Constantinople
(b) Syria, Assyria, Egypt, and Babylon
(c) Palestine, Egypt, and Rome
(d) Greece, Rome, and Egypt

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Islam nail down the actions of humans?

2. What is the hope of the Jewish people?

3. What are hadiths?

4. What are the basic concepts of Islam?

5. What was the groundwork Judaism laid because of its view of history?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the unique characteristic of primal oral religions?

2. Discuss briefly the economics of Islam.

3. What is the best question that should be asked about religion?

4. What part does ritual play for Jewish people?

5. Why does Huston Smith not go into any kind of comparison of the religions he writes about in the book?

6. What impact did Jewish history make on the world?

7. What did the Jewish people do while in captivity that defines their need to discover meanings behind events?

8. How did the Jews form a different idea about the importance of history?

9. Is it exact to say that primal religions are all polytheistic?

10. Briefly describe the origins of Islam.

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