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

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

3. As a chosen people, what were the Jews to do?
(a) Sing and pray
(b) Serve and suffer
(c) Write and read
(d) Teach and compel

4. How does primal polytheism differ from that of the Greeks and Romans?
(a) The primal gods are not assigned specific tasks they accomplish.
(b) The deistic position to ancestors, animals, and objects, does not rule out the primal idea of the Supreme Being.
(c) The Greek and Roman gods were not as capricious as the primal dieties.
(d) The primal gods are not given any kind of shape or form.

5. What is the totem?
(a) An animal species which comes to symbolize a life force
(b) An idol for offering sacrifices
(c) A tribal village name
(d) A heavy burden that the tribe must bear

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What concept in Judaism changed the way God is perceived?

3. What was the major contribution to religion of the Israelite people?

4. Where did the Jews find a greater meaning in life?

5. What is the main thing gleaned from reading the Tao Te Ching?

Short Essay Questions

1. Identify the four major sects of the Jews during the life of Jesus.

2. Briefly explain the totem of primal religions.

3. Briefly describe the origins of Islam.

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

5. What is the divergent ideas over the Jews as God's elect people today?

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

7. How did the Jews profess to find meaning for life?

8. What about religions other than the historical religions from Confucianism to Christianity?

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

10. What was the good news of Jesus and how was it circulated?

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