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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main difference between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy?

2. How do Muslims justify Islam's history of aggressiveness?

3. What is the function exclusive to the shaman in primal religion?

4. Why do primal religions draw no strict lines between the temporal and the spiritual?

5. What was different between God and the gods of the people all around the Jews?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the Australian aborigines view the spiritual realm?

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

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

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

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

7. Briefly list and explain the Five Pillars of Islam.

8. What debt does Western civilization owe to Muslims?

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

10. What was Muhammad's greatest contribution to the Muslim people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a critique of Huston Smith's book, The World's Religions. In your critique discuss such things as how well the topics were covered, how easy or difficult the points were to understand, and whether you would recommend the book for others to read.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on how your preconceived ideas of one or more of the religions examined in the book have changed. Describe what you knew about the religion before the study and how the study changed your viewpoint of the religion.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on different approaches to suffering. All religions recognize the existence of suffering but approach the subject in different ways. Select two or three religious teachings on suffering and draw either parallels or contradictions.

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