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DSST World Religions2

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1. When the king wanted to turn Yahweh into a nature religion who stood against the king?
Yom Kippur
Did not persecute non-believers
Brahma
Elijah

2. What is the center believe of the Christian denomination?
The Jade Emperor
Jesus was the Messiah
Sufis
Jews outside of Israel

3. Which of the following is NOT a pillar of Islam? Daily Prayer - Confession of Sins - Pilgrimmage to Mecca - Charitable Duties - Declaration of Faith
The Fisherman
Shiva
Confession of sins is not a pillar
Abraham

4. Who was considered an intermediary between the natural and spiritual worlds?
Ham (non kosher)
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others
The Tanakh
A Shaman

5. What does Hinduism justify it's caste system by?
The Fisherman
YI
Karma
A prophet

6. Buddhism is an offshoot of what religion?
Maktabs
Hinduism
The Tanakh
YI

7. ____ is the most important according to the Artha Shastra - Hinduism
Artha
Diwali
The release from the samsara
Baptists

8. Who was considered the first Buddha?
Gautama
Dharma - artha - and kama.
Feng Shui - Diet - Sexual Restraints - Breath Control and Searching for the Isle of the Blessed
Elisha

9. What is the literature that describes the covenant?
Episcapalian
The Torah
Elisha
Jesus was the Messiah

10. What is an atman?
the soul
8 folds
Shiva
Did not persecute non-believers

11. What is another word for polytheism - i.e. believing in many gods
Pure land is a denomination of Buddhism
Creation - Preservation and Destruction
Hellenists
Allah

12. Which is not one of the Buddhism six realms of existence? Animals - Anti Gods - Humans - Hungry Ghosts - Sealife
Sealife is not one of the 6 realms of existence
Confucianism
Half bird - half woman that sing irresistible songs
Ham (non kosher)

13. Who was the leader of the underworld?
Creation - Preservation and Destruction
Pluto was the leader of Hades
A way of devotion
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others

14. Who was the most influential teacher of Neo-Confucianism?
8 folds
Aphrodite
Zhu-Xi
The covenant refers to an agreement between God and Jews (anciently Hebrews) only

15. Which religion stresses the creation of gentlemen and propriety?
Confucianism
Micah
Paul
A prophet

16. What are the ideal stages in the Buddhist life and which is not?
Infant is NOT - Diseased man - Ascetic - Dead Man and Old man are passing sights
Enlightened One
Pluto was the leader of Hades
Student of religion - Marriage and family life - Focus on religion and other spiritual things - and being a Holy Wanderer- the Bloddline of a Buddha is not a stage

17. What is the holy wanderer called?
Mishna and the Gemara
Sannygasu
the soul
Pentecostals

18. Who likened his struggle with the Lord to his unfaithful wife - but forgiveness prevailed?
Student of religion - Marriage and family life - Focus on religion and other spiritual things - and being a Holy Wanderer- the Bloddline of a Buddha is not a stage
Hosea
Hijrah
Half bird - half woman that sing irresistible songs

19. How do the Taoists hope to achieve longevity?
Feng Shui - Diet - Sexual Restraints - Breath Control and Searching for the Isle of the Blessed
Seance
The importance of feeling suffering is not one of them
Shiva

20. Popes wear a cermonial ring called the Ring of __________
Pentecostals
Dharma - artha - and kama.
The canon is an official list of holy scriptures
The Fisherman

21. Which Christian denomination is known for speaking in tongues?
Pentecostals
Infant is NOT - Diseased man - Ascetic - Dead Man and Old man are passing sights
The Sociology of Religion
It is a law that is not from the Torah

22. The sacred sayings of Muhammad - handed down by oral tradition and finally written down.
A Ziggurat
Hadith
Sunni
Hosea

23. What is known is righteousness in Confucianism?
Shiva
The canon is an official list of holy scriptures
Sunni
YI

24. The three paths to salvation (yogas) are...
Confession of sins is not a pillar
Dharma - artha - and kama.
Muhammad
Paul

25. Who was the goddess of love?
Brahmanas
Artha
Sufis
Aphrodite

26. Dreamtime is the Aborigine word for what?
Shiva - Brahma and Vishnu
A Shaman
Creation
Amos

27. What is the highest class in the varna - the ___________is a member of the priestly class of society
Holy trinity
Mullahs
Shiva
Brahmin

28. What is shomerim?
Guards for a dead body
Seance
It is the story of buddha's previous life
Allah

29. Which is NOT a Four Noble Truth? Life is suffering - It is important to experience suffering - Suffering comes from attachment - It is possible to end suffering - There is a path (eight-fold) end to suffering
Gabriel
Confucianism
The importance of feeling suffering is not one of them
Sannygasu

30. Which of the following is NOT one of the four divine beings of the Greek universe? Love - Chaos - Knowledge - Earth or the Abyss
Knowledge
Hosea
Artha
Pantheism

31. Who prophesized that social sins would be punished?
Zhu-Xi
Amos
Apologetics
Jesus was the Messiah

32. What is Takkanah?
The release from the samsara
The Mishna and the Gemara
Elijah
It is a law that is not from the Torah

33. In Greek Mythology what is a Siren?
Half bird - half woman that sing irresistible songs
Brahma
Seance
Allah

34. Which of the following is an example of trayf?
The Fisherman
Ham (non kosher)
A Shaman
Mercilessness

35. Which of the following is NOT one of the Native American's religious rituals? Sweat Lodge Ceremony - Vision Quest - Smudging - Seance - Making of Relations
Hosea
Seance
Diwali
Hinduism

36. In Judaism what is the Covenant?
Allah
The covenant refers to an agreement between God and Jews (anciently Hebrews) only
The Amish
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)

37. Both protestants and catholics believe in the...
the soul
Holy trinity
Hades
Episcapalian

38. The _____ is the writing of the prophets

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39. In Judiasm who speaks for God?
Confucianism
A prophet
Brahmanas
Muslims

40. What types of Christian Inquisition are there? Which did not exist
Feng Shui - Diet - Sexual Restraints - Breath Control and Searching for the Isle of the Blessed
World Soul
Italian Inquisition did not exist - there was the Roman - Medieval - Portugese - and Spanish
The canon is an official list of holy scriptures

41. What are 4 of the Goals of Life in Hinduism Belief?
Baptists
Jews outside of Israel
Shiva - Brahma and Vishnu
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)

42. Which of the following is NOT a Catholic practice? Confession - Stations of the cross - Last Rites - Speaking in Tongues - Vernation of Saints
Elijah
Speaking in Tongues
Aphrodite
Brahma

43. What is Canon?
Mishna and the Gemara
The canon is an official list of holy scriptures
Nebi'im
Hinduism

44. What is shradah?
It is the story of buddha's previous life
Muhammad
Infant is NOT - Diseased man - Ascetic - Dead Man and Old man are passing sights
Shraddha are death rites

45. What is a bodhisattva?
Shih Ching
Mujtahids
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others
Elisha

46. Not considered one of the seven deadly sins (irony!)
A prophet
Confucianism
Hellenists
Mercilessness

47. The believe in the divinity of everything
Pantheism
Hijrah
Shinto
Zhu-Xi

48. What book outlined cases with rulings by rabbis?
Guards for a dead body
Pantheism
Abraham
The Mishnah

49. Which of the following is not written about Confucianism? Tao-te-Ching - Analects - Lun yu - Great Learning - Da Xue - Doctrine of Mean )Zhong Young) - Book of Mencius
Jesus was the Messiah
It is a law that is not from the Torah
Tao-te-Ching is abook written on Taoism not Confucianism
Right Penance

50. Bhakti Marga is?
Apologetics
Diwali
Mishna and the Gemara
A way of devotion