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

2. What is the hope of the Jewish people?

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

4. What is the sect of Islam that is introspective and mystic?

5. What are the three areas of mysticism in Sufism?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Judaism portray the relationship between God and man?

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

8. Define the major difference between the Roman Catholic church and Eastern Orthodoxy.

9. Tell briefly what caused the Protestant movement.

10. How is Taoism often viewed by Westerners?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the religion you found most fascinating during the study of The World's Religions. Include whether the study changed some misconceptions about the religion you might have held previously.

Essay Topic 2

Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism were never intended to be religions in the traditional sense. Write an essay on why and how these philosophies became organized religions. Express whether you think organizing them may have been a means of preserving them.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the ultimate goal of all religions. In your essay mention the different concepts of heaven or nirvana as held by different religious thought. Contrast the ideas of achieving perfection and the ideas of a place.

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