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1. Monasticism in the West during the Middle Ages is credited with...
Roman Catholicism; Roman Catholics have a special devotion to the Virgin Mary that is a major difference with other Christian denominations.
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.
Hindus believe that each deity is a representation of some aspect of Brahman
Movement of Jews to areas outside Palestine beginning in the eighth century B.C.E.


2. Mahayana Buddhists believe that Gautama Buddha was not one of the following...
The representation of an eternal Buddha; one of many Buddhas
Returning to Allah what is his
Shinto; The Japanese government set up national shrines - mandated the teaching of Shinto in schools - and used State Shinto to further its military aims. It was banned after World War II.
It has aspects of African religions as well as Islam; Voodoo has elements of Roman Catholicism - not Islam - mixed with traditional African religions.


3. A common theme of the world's religions is that...
No
There is a connection between all things that exist
Set out a number of principles that are central to Hinduism; The Upanishads are a collection of advice from Hindu sages. Among the topics covered are reincarnation - creation - and the relationship between individual souls and Ultimate Reality.
Torah; The Torah scroll is kept in the ark and read from during services


4. Women cannot become cantors and rabbis in which branch of Judaism?
Yom Kippur; Yom Kippur is the holiest and most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.
Tantras of Tibetan Buddhism
Ahura Mazda
Orthodox


5. The Eastern Orthodox rites differ from Roman Catholicism in their...
Lack of hierarchical structure; Unlike the Roman Catholic Church that has the pope at its head - Eastern Orthodox churches are ruled by a network of patriarchs.
The struggle within a Muslim to live a good life
Meditation - Nonviolence - Self-Denial
Female - nurturing - and passive


6. Which religions hold similar general beliefs about heaven and hell?
Judaism - Christianity - and Islam
Meng-zi reinforced Confucius's teaching that people were innately good - whereas Xun-zi taught that people were innately evil.
Improve the lives of the poor through political activism
He attempted to reconcile Judaism and Aristotelian philosophy; Like Thomas Aquinas in the Roman Catholic Church - Maimonides attempted to reconcile Aristotle's philosophy with his own belief system and caused a similar controvers.


7. The Prophetic Movement in Judaism...

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8. Conflict over Muhammad's successor led to...

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9. The dogma of papal infallibility refers to...

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10. Release from the cycle of birth - death - and rebirth in Hinduism.
Ramadan
Confer special grace on the gravely ill person
Moksha
Christians' belief in an immortal soul; Native Americans in general believe that if people forget the dead - over time their souls will cease to exist.


11. In an effort to become less isolated from their non-Jewish communities - Reform Jews in the 19th century...
The concepts of purity and pollution remain the basis for the caste system.
Christians; Jews; Muslims
Eased kosher restrictions;
A vision quest


12. Jerusalem is a holy city to...
Jesus is actually present in the bread and wine in communion
Fasting during the day for one month each year
Baal Shem Tov
Christians; Jews; Muslims


13. Shari'a deals with...
Ignorance and desire for things of this world are the cause of suffering
The caste system
Sencond Vatican Council
Religious conduct; commercial transactions; political actions; private life


14. Judaism is unique in that it...
Belief that God will save the world from its sins by sending a messiah
Is as much a cultural designation as a religious one
The Exodus
Jainism


15. What occupation would a dalit have in India?
Trash hauler
Celebrates the birth of Krishna - the incarnation of the god Vishnu - the protector and preserver.
Church's selling of indulgences
A Taoist endeavors to live a simple life. Taoism teaches inaction as the highest principle of being.


16. The 'Good News' of which Jesus spoke was...

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17. What events in human history resulted in the development of religions based on natural elements - such as soil fertility - the seasons - and rainfall?
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.
It describes Allah as a strict - distant - and unresponsive god
Fourth Commandment; The Fourth Commandment - Honor thy Father and thy Mother - applies not only to relationships within the family unit - but to the relationship between civil authority and members of the civil society.
Judaism; Christianity; Islam


18. The first Christians believed that...
To redeem humankind from sin
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.
Zoroastrianism.
Salvation came as a gift from God


19. Religions typically do not include...
Monasticism
'Chuang Tzu'
Sephardim
Veneration of the saints


20. Divali
Roman Catholicism
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.
Jesus is the son of God
The Hindu Festival of lights.


21. Traditional African religions DO NOT include...
The Trinity
A vision quest
Baal Shem Tov
The growing materialism of Islam around the 800s


22. The purpose of the Catholic sacrament of Anointing the Sick is to...
Confer special grace on the gravely ill person
Trash hauler
Humaneness
Confucianism


23. Islam and Christianity share a belief in...
Angels - heaven - and hell
Tantras of Tibetan Buddhism
Marriage for the clergy
Baal Shem Tov


24. Hindus view 'dharma' as a duty - or moral code of action - whereas to Buddhists 'dharma' is...
Covenant; The Covenant between Yahweh and Abraham is the foundation on which Judaism is based.
Five Pillars
The teachings of Buddha - or religious truth.
After the Assyrians destroyed Israel; The Jewish Diaspora began after the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in the 8th century B.C.E.


25. What is the most important holy day in the Christian calendar?

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26. The 'Bhagavad Gita' is important to...

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27. What was the main reason for the centuries-long mutual hatred between Christians and Muslims?
Female and male; Yin represents the female principle and earth. It is passive and dark. Yang represents the male principle and heaven. It is action - heat - and light. Together - they represent harmony.
Invasion of the Holy Land by the Crusaders
Abraham
'Chuang Tzu'


28. The Christian Science movement believes that...

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29. Mawlid al-Nabi

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30. The Diaspora is the term given to the...
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.
Purify the body and mind.
Movement of Jews to areas outside Palestine beginning in the eighth century B.C.E.
Law of Manu (describes the caste system and the duties of each caste).


31. What is a true statement about Sikhism?
Vedanta; The Vedanta system holds that all the world - including humans - is an illusion
Judaism; Christianity; Islam
Its members pray together without priests and with little ritual
Trash hauler


32. The Church of England/Anglican Church was a compromise that resulted in...
Moksha
Zoroastrianism
In response to the works of scientists and philosophers like Darwin and Marx
Protestant doctorine but Catholic ritual


33. What requires a month of fasting from sunup to sundown?
Ramadan
Moksha
Written religious teachings; Indigenous religious practices are preliterate - so there were no written religious teachings - although modern anthropologists and similar researchers have written them down for various cultures.
To redeem humankind from sin


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

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35. The word 'Islam' means...
Submission
Rite of passage
Possession of wealth and power
Had been denied an annulment of his marriage


36. What religion believes in Purgatory?
Filial piety
Allowed subject peoples to practice their own religions
Roman Catholicism
Easter; Easter fulfills Jesus' promise to his followers that he will overcome death as those who believe in him will


37. The purposes of Ramadan are to...

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38. Who is the most traditionally observant Jew?
The concept that Judaism was based on laws that could be read and known
The split into Sunni and Shi'a branches of Islam
Written religious teachings; Indigenous religious practices are preliterate - so there were no written religious teachings - although modern anthropologists and similar researchers have written them down for various cultures.
Orthodox


39. Unlike most religions - Hinduism has no...
Meditation - Nonviolence - Self-Denial
Christianity
Founder
Luther denied the infallibility of the pope.


40. A Buddhist who is proud would not be practicing which principle of the Eight-Fold Path?
Celebrates Muhammad's birthday
Right Views
The desire to convert nonbelievers and spread the religion
Yom Kippur; Yom Kippur is the holiest and most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.


41. The goal of Zionism is the fulfillment of a dream many Jews have had since the...
He attempted to reconcile Judaism and Aristotelian philosophy; Like Thomas Aquinas in the Roman Catholic Church - Maimonides attempted to reconcile Aristotle's philosophy with his own belief system and caused a similar controvers.
The caste system
Protestant doctorine but Catholic ritual
Destruction of the second Temple and the end of Palestine in 70 C.E.


42. Shamans serve as...
Monasticism
Jews; This is the promise that Yahweh made to Abraham
Guides to the spirit world. Shamans functioned - and still function - in religions based on nature and spirit worship.
Episcopalianism


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

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44. The Mishnah
Desire is the cause of all suffering; The Eightfold Path; All life is suffering; The only way to end suffering is to end desire
Yahweh's covenant with Abraham. In the covenant - Yahweh declared that the descendants of Abraham would have a special relationship with him.
The most sacred to Muslims
The first collection of Jewish laws


45. Monism (belief that all things
Icons
Is of little importance in achieving nirvana; Ritual sacrifice plays a minor role in Theravada Buddhism.
Zoroastrianism
Native American religions.


46. What is not a true description of the Talmud?
Female - nurturing - and passive
The Talmud is the word of Yahweh
Buddhism; Confucianism; Taoism
Ritual; A code of moral conduct; An afterlife


47. What is NOT a teaching of Islam?
Fasting during the day for one month each year
A conservative movement within Islam
Augustine; Among Augustine's contributions to Christian thought are the doctrine of original sin and the description of 'caritas -' or Christian love - the love of God and the love of one another.
Monasticism


48. How is the belief in God - by whatever name - similar in Christianity - Islam - and Judaism?
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.
The first week of mourning after a death
An afterlife; Jews believe that there is an afterlife - but it does not have the physical description that Christian and Islamic heaven and hell have. Jews focus on living a good life according to God's laws rather than on punishment and reward after
It taught people to accept the status quo


49. In founding the Nation of Islam - Wallace Fard focused on...
Is a righteous God who demands moral and ethical behavior from people
Rejection of the caste system
Abraham
Economics and social concerns of African Americans within an Islamic framework


50. The basic teachings of Islam are set down in the...
Five Pillars.
Provides many people a counterweight to changing social mores
A messiah
No schools that teach religion to their followers