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1. The term 'kosher' refers to...
Jewish dietary laws
Judaism; Islam; Traditional African religions
Native American religions.
To redeem humankind from sin


2. Most Protestant denominations build their services around...
Communion
Judaism
Relied on by the faithful of the Pure Land sect to Buddhism to enter the Land of Bliss
Xun-zi


3. Unlike most Protestant denominations - Roman Catholics...
Rely on both the Bible and Church traditions as sources of truth
Covenant; The Covenant between Yahweh and Abraham is the foundation on which Judaism is based.
Pacifism
Venerate and fear ancestors - Have healers; Are localized; Hinduism does not share any of these characteristics. The only trait that African religions have in common with Hinduism is that Hinduism and African religions are polytheistic.


4. What belief systems are neither monotheistic nor polytheistic?
Hasidic Jews
A group's identification with an animal - which is a totem
Submission
Buddhism; Confucianism; Taoism


5. The goal of Zionism is the fulfillment of a dream many Jews have had since the...
Torah; The Torah scroll is kept in the ark and read from during services
Destruction of the second Temple and the end of Palestine in 70 C.E.
The replacement of a traditional language with a vernacular language.
Religion includes a belief in the supernatural or divine - a set of practices - and a code of ethics.


6. Divali
It is the revealed word of God; Muslims believe that God revealed his message to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel.
No schools that teach religion to their followers
There is a connection between all things that exist
The Hindu Festival of lights.


7. 'Umma'
Modern Iraq; A theocracy is a government in which the power and authority comes either because the ruler is considered a god (Egypt under the pharaohs) or a representative of God on earth (John Calvin's Geneva and Massachusetts Bay).
Bring the gift of God's grace
Required obedience to a set of moral behaviors
The Islamic concept of the community of Muslim believers


8. Sikhism was founded as a reaction against...
It describes Allah as a strict - distant - and unresponsive god
Roman Catholicism
Islam and Hinduism; Nanak - who founded Sikhism in northern India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries - was born a Hindu and studied Islam - but could not find spiritual peace in either.
The First Pillar of Islam


9. Which Christian denomination believes in purgatory?
Required obedience to a set of moral behaviors
David
All people are created equal; The Baha'i movement preaches equality of the sexes - the importance of education - an end to prejudice - and the value of leading a good life.
Roman Catholicism


10. Bodhisattvas help others to find enlightenment...
'Chuang Tzu'
While delaying their own entrance into nirvana
Householder
Veneration of the saints


11. Ancestor worship was an important part of...
Mayan religion
Any gods
Orthodox branch; Orthodox Jews conform most closely to the tenets of Judaism as revealed by God. They are not concerned with adapting Judaism to the world outside of the Jewish community.
Were political rulers; The caliphs were considered successors to Muhammad - but after the first four - caliphs were political - rather than both political and religious - leaders


12. While Westerners may think of yoga as exercise - Hindus consider Yoga primarily as a way to...
The caste system.
Connect with Brahman
Upanishads
Offered a spiritual approach to life


13. Judaism varies from Christianity and Islam in its lack of emphasis on...

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14. The Sufi movement was a reaction against...
The representation of an eternal Buddha; one of many Buddhas
The growing materialism of Islam around the 800s
The caste system
Ahura Mazda


15. The primary purpose of the bar mitzvah and the bat mitzvah is to...
Recognize when a boy and a girl are considered adults in Judaism.
Enter the state of nirvana - or enlightenment
The father of the gods in the Greek pantheon.
Officials were worried that Buddhism's popularity would affect people's loyalty to the government


16. What statement best describes the early development of Christianity?
Ahura Mazda
Hasidic Jews
The early followers of Jesus still considered themselves Jews.
Anglicans; Thomas Cranmer - who was the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury and a leader of the English Protestant Reformation - wrote the 'Book of Common Prayer -' which remains the official liturgy of the Anglican communion of churches.


17. The goal of the Four Noble Truths.
The growing materialism of Islam around the 800s
God's goodness can heal illness as well as sin
Immersing adults in water
Enter the state of nirvana - or enlightenment


18. The beginning of the caste system in Indian society can be found in the...
Law of Manu (describes the caste system and the duties of each caste).
It is considered a holy river
Confucianism
Filial piety


19. What is a true statement about Sikhism?
Profess one's Islamic faith
Immersing adults in water
Its members pray together without priests and with little ritual
Jewish dietary laws


20. Islam and Christianity share a belief in...
It was absorbed into Hinduism. Over time - Hinduism adopted some of the concepts of Buddhism and Buddha became one of many Hindu gods.
Angels - heaven - and hell
Pork
Yahweh's covenant with Abraham. In the covenant - Yahweh declared that the descendants of Abraham would have a special relationship with him.


21. Muslims and Christians both believe...
That the government should support religion; They believe in separation of Church and State
In a final Judgment Day; Both Muslims and Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day when the dead will be raised up.
Indigenous religions of South America
Things like ambition - wealth - and power keep people from their real purpose in life


22. What division of Judaism follows the teachings of a rebbe?
Recognize when a boy and a girl are considered adults in Judaism.
Ruler; The ruler as the superior
Just social action; Confucius taught the importance of acting justly in all social interactions.
Hasidic Jews


23. In the Roman Catholic Church - the feast of the Epiphany broadly commemorates...
Celebrates Muhammad's birthday
Mayan religion
The role of its clergy; Shi'a has a clerical hierarchy.
The recognition of Jesus as the messiah of Israel and the savior of all peoples


24. Ka'bah
It emphasizes the joyous and ecstatic nature of Judaism
Saudi Arabia; The Wahhabi movement is a conservative movement within Islam and controls Saudi Arabia through its connection to the ruling family.
A person who is not sure whether there is a supreme being or not
The most sacred to Muslims


25. Hinduism can be characterized as a religion that...
Offered a spiritual approach to life
Has no set list of beliefs that followers must accept
Relied on by the faithful of the Pure Land sect to Buddhism to enter the Land of Bliss
A person who is not sure whether there is a supreme being or not


26. A central belief of the Roman Catholic Church NOT shared by Protestant denominations.
Transubstantiation
Monasticism
Female - nurturing - and passive
To redeem humankind from sin


27. Who united the Israelites into a single nation?
Jesus
David
Celebrates Muhammad's birthday
Preserving Greek and Roman civilization and learning in general; Monks in monasteries and nuns in convents kept learning alive through their copying of Greek and Roman writings and by teaching.


28. What statement is true about the Indian caste system?
The first week of mourning after a death
Reconcile Aristotle's work with their religions.
The caste system is both religious and social in nature.
Prayer five times a day


29. Christian fundamentalism began in the late nineteenth century...
Yom Kippur; Yom Kippur is the holiest and most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.
In response to the works of scientists and philosophers like Darwin and Marx
It was absorbed into Hinduism. Over time - Hinduism adopted some of the concepts of Buddhism and Buddha became one of many Hindu gods.
Jesus


30. How do Mahayana Buddhists and Theravada Buddhists view Gautama?
Both branches of Buddhism believe that Gautama Buddha is one of many Buddhas; Theravada Buddhists see Gautama as a saint and great teacher and Mahayana Buddhists see him as a savior who helps others to enlightenment.
Just social action; Confucius taught the importance of acting justly in all social interactions.
Allowed subject peoples to practice their own religions
Episcopalians believe in scripture as interpreted by tradition - whereas Lutherans believe that scripture alone is the sole authority on which their faith is based.


31. What contribution did Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) make to Jewish thought?

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32. One sect of Zen Buddhism believes that enlightenment comes through...
Exposure to Western culture and the growing secularization of Muslim nations; Exposure to Western culture and the growing secularization of Muslim nations
Five Pillars
Sudden illumination; The Renzai - or Intuitive - school of Zen Buddhism believes that rational thought will not bring illumination. One must think anti-rationally and go behind reason before enlightenment will come - and then it will come suddenly in
Nonviolence


33. In which denomination may a woman be ordained as either a priest or minister?
The urge for spontaneity should be controlled; Taoism taught that spontaneous action that arose from being free of worldly concerns and open to the Tao - or workings of the universe - was good.
Compassion
Ignorance and desire for things of this world are the cause of suffering
Episcopal


34. The most accurate description of yoga to Hindus is...
Church's selling of indulgences
The Exodus
Tantras of Tibetan Buddhism
A path to release the mind from distractions


35. 'Jen' in Confucianism is the...

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36. How is the belief in God - by whatever name - similar in Christianity - Islam - and Judaism?
Icons
Meditation - Nonviolence - Self-Denial
God is the creator of the world; All three religions believe that God is the creator of the world - and is all knowing - all powerful - and all present.
Empty their minds of all thoughts and desires


37. What is true about Hinduism?
The Christian belief that Jesus was the messiah
A central principle of Hinduism is reincarnation
Islam and Hinduism; Nanak - who founded Sikhism in northern India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries - was born a Hindu and studied Islam - but could not find spiritual peace in either.
Primacy of the pope in determining matters of Christian doctrine. The Eastern Church believed that authority in matters of faith rested more with the Bible and church councils than with the pope.


38. In what deities do both good and evil co-exist?
Fasting during the day for one month each year
Disappeared after the Assyrians captured Israel
Ahura Mazda
Martin Luther


39. In Taoism - yin is...
Female - nurturing - and passive
Connect with Brahman
No
The sun goddess - believed to be the direct ancestor of the Japanese emperor - and a very important deity in Shinto.


40. Harmony
The first collection of Jewish laws
The dominant theme of Taoism
Pentecostals believe that they receive special powers from God.; One special power is the ability to 'speak in tongues.'; Pentecostals believe that they receive special powers from God and one of those powers is the ability to speak in tongues.
Shinto; Shinto was - and remains - a specifically Japanese religion.


41. A rite of passage in Judaism is...
Circumcision; The ceremony of circumcision - known as brit - marks the entrance of a male child into Judaism.
Destruction of the second Temple and the end of Palestine in 70 C.E.
Angels - heaven - and hell
Ended the practice of indulgences


42. Some people think that Zionism is the same as...

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43. Which system of Hindu philosophy believes that only Brahman is real?
Jesus
Vedanta; The Vedanta system holds that all the world - including humans - is an illusion
It emphasizes the joyous and ecstatic nature of Judaism
Neolithic Revolution; The Neolithic Revolution marks the change from hunting and gathering to settled farming as a way of life. Groups developed religions to appeal to the deities in nature for help.


44. To say the Shahadah is to...

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45. Whereas original Confucian teachings dealt with the social order - Taoism...
Humaneness
Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholics have a special devotion to the Virgin Mary that is a major difference with other Christian denominations.
Offered a spiritual approach to life
A Taoist endeavors to live a simple life. Taoism teaches inaction as the highest principle of being.


46. The Mishnah
Emphasis on the goodness of the spirit over the evilness of the flesh.
Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholics have a special devotion to the Virgin Mary that is a major difference with other Christian denominations.
The first collection of Jewish laws
An imperceptible presence in the universe


47. The Church of England/Anglican Church was a compromise that resulted in...
Protestant doctorine but Catholic ritual
That the government should support religion; They believe in separation of Church and State
A supreme being
Is a righteous God who demands moral and ethical behavior from people


48. The goal of liberation theology is to...
Improve the lives of the poor through political activism
Rejection of the caste system
Allowed subject peoples to practice their own religions
Primacy of the pope in determining matters of Christian doctrine. The Eastern Church believed that authority in matters of faith rested more with the Bible and church councils than with the pope.


49. The position of caliph evolved so that caliphs...
Rite of passage
Bring the gift of God's grace
Ended the practice of indulgences
Were political rulers; The caliphs were considered successors to Muhammad - but after the first four - caliphs were political - rather than both political and religious - leaders


50. Huguenots
What Allah said to Muhammad
French Protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin
Neolithic Revolution; The Neolithic Revolution marks the change from hunting and gathering to settled farming as a way of life. Groups developed religions to appeal to the deities in nature for help.
Indigenous religions of South America