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

2. What are the two interpretations of messianic hope?
(a) A person or messiah or a catraclysmic intervention by God
(b) A population boom or a military power expansion
(c) A utopia or a conquest
(d) A person or the end of the world

3. What two things became most important after Rome destroyed the temple in Jerusalem?
(a) The dispersion and Roman citizenship
(b) The traditions and the resistence
(c) The Rabbi and the synagogue
(d) The taxes and the Exodus

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the blend that makes up the Jewish interpretation of man?

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

3. With what were the minor, or writing prophets, concerned?

4. What saves the Christian in spite of his imperfect nature?

5. What tenet of Christianity is rejected by both Judaism and Islam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What debt does Western civilization owe to Muslims?

2. What does Huston Smith see as the only possible solution for the world today?

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

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

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

6. Define the early or major prophets of Israel.

7. Briefly describe Jesus as the originator of the Christian religion.

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

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

10. What summarizes the mystery of the church?

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