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DSST World Religions2

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1. Which Christian denomination is known for its separation from society and rejection of modern technology?
The Amish
Seance
Mujtahids
Not a goal

2. What is Jataka?

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3. What is the name of the Jewish Holiday which means "Day of Atonement?"
Holy trinity
Feng Shui - Diet - Sexual Restraints - Breath Control and Searching for the Isle of the Blessed
Baptists
Yom Kippur

4. Which of the following is not one of the Eightfold Path? Right Livelihood - Right Mindfulness - Right Penance - Right Effort - Right Speech
Sealife is not one of the 6 realms of existence
Italian Inquisition did not exist - there was the Roman - Medieval - Portugese - and Spanish
Right Penance
Jews

5. Which of the following denominations is characterized by a middle way between Catholocism and Protestantism?
Knowledge
Jesus was the Messiah
Mujtahids
Episcapalian

6. Which of the following is an example of trayf?
The Fisherman
Ham (non kosher)
Shih Ching
Jews

7. Both protestants and catholics believe in the...
Holy trinity
The importance of feeling suffering is not one of them
Mercilessness
Hellenists

8. What is the center believe of the Christian denomination?
Pure land is a denomination of Buddhism
Jesus was the Messiah
Micah
Jews

9. The Islamic people are called?
Paul
Gabriel
Muslims
Micah

10. Who do the Hebrews believe they are descendents of ?
Hinduism
Mujtahids
The Jade Emperor
Abraham

11. ________are Shi'ite primary schools run by the clergy.
A Ziggurat
Maktabs
The Torah
Feng Shui - Diet - Sexual Restraints - Breath Control and Searching for the Isle of the Blessed

12. Who was considered the first Buddha?
Episcapalian
Hijrah
Gautama
Confession of sins is not a pillar

13. The sacred sayings of Muhammad - handed down by oral tradition and finally written down.
Hadith
Amos
Brahmanas
The Amish

14. Where do most people go after they die according to Greek Mythology?
A Ziggurat
Hades
Sunni
Sealife is not one of the 6 realms of existence

15. True or False- Zealots were passive
Artha
Episcapalian
Hosea
False Zealots were a historic Judaism group that were passionate about getting Palestine out from under Roman rule and believe that rebellion was the answer

16. The three paths to salvation (yogas) are...
8 folds
Hijrah
Dharma - artha - and kama.
Muhammad

17. ____ is the most important according to the Artha Shastra - Hinduism
the soul
Artha
Did not persecute non-believers
Sealife is not one of the 6 realms of existence

18. Which of the following Five Classics is the Classic of Odes? Shu Ching - Shih Ching - I Ching - Ch'un Chi'iu or Li Ching
Kharijites
Shih Ching
Abraham
Pure land is a denomination of Buddhism

19. What is another word for polytheism - i.e. believing in many gods
Allah
Hellenists
Sealife is not one of the 6 realms of existence
Jews

20. Who likened his struggle with the Lord to his unfaithful wife - but forgiveness prevailed?
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)
Hosea
The Mishnah
A P

21. What gods make up The Trimuriti?
The Mishna and the Gemara
Guards for a dead body
Nebi'im
Shiva - Brahma and Vishnu

22. Which approach to religion studies the relationship between the individual and the religious community?
Apologetics
Mercilessness
The Sociology of Religion
The Jade Emperor

23. According to the Taoists who is the ruler of heaven?
It is a law that is not from the Torah
Yom Kippur
The Jade Emperor
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)

24. What two books make up the Talmud?
8 folds
The Mishna and the Gemara
Confucianism
Sufis

25. Who is the Islamic Prohphet
Muhammad
Confucianism
Enlightened One
The release from the samsara

26. What is a bodhisattva?
Enlightened One
A way of devotion
The Fisherman
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others

27. What is the highest class in the varna - the ___________is a member of the priestly class of society
Pluto was the leader of Hades
Brahmin
Hinduism
Holy trinity

28. ___________is the Creator God - member of the Trimurti
Muhammad
Episcapalian
The Jade Emperor
Brahma

29. What is shomerim?
Guards for a dead body
Confucianism
Elijah
A way of devotion

30. Which of the following was not one of the passing sights for the Prince in Buddhism and which is?
The Amish
Brahma
Infant is NOT - Diseased man - Ascetic - Dead Man and Old man are passing sights
The Jade Emperor

31. What is moksha?
The release from the samsara
Hadith
Gabriel
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)

32. Not considered one of the seven deadly sins (irony!)
Hades
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)
Mercilessness
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

33. Which religion stresses the creation of gentlemen and propriety?
Nebi'im
Confucianism
Pentecostals
Feng Shui - Diet - Sexual Restraints - Breath Control and Searching for the Isle of the Blessed

34. What is Takkanah?
The Mishna and the Gemara
The Mishnah
Indra
It is a law that is not from the Torah

35. Which of the following is NOT a Catholic practice? Confession - Stations of the cross - Last Rites - Speaking in Tongues - Vernation of Saints
Muslims
Hades
Mishna and the Gemara
Speaking in Tongues

36. Who encouraged a violent revolution?
Elisha
Dharma - artha - and kama.
Brahmin
Knowledge

37. Which of the following is NOT one of the Native American's religious rituals? Sweat Lodge Ceremony - Vision Quest - Smudging - Seance - Making of Relations
Seance
Shraddha are death rites
Knowledge
Shiva - Brahma and Vishnu

38. The Trimurti represents what?
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
A Shaman
Creation - Preservation and Destruction
Paul

39. What is diaspora?
Mullahs
Hinduism
Jews outside of Israel
Apologetics

40. Dreamtime is the Aborigine word for what?
The canon is an official list of holy scriptures
Mullahs
Pure land is a denomination of Buddhism
Creation

41. Political Aspirations are ______ in the Hindu belief system.
The Jade Emperor
Not a goal
Confession of sins is not a pillar
Shinto

42. The Supreme Being. The name of God.
Aphrodite
Amos
Allah
Karma

43. Asoka took Budhhism very seriously - which one of the following did he NOT do : Persecute non-believers - Fourteen Rock Edicts - minor Pillar Edicts - Cave Inscriptions - Pillar Inscriptions
The release from the samsara
Ham (non kosher)
Did not persecute non-believers
Brahman

44. What is the literature that describes the covenant?
Micah
The Torah
Mishna and the Gemara
Seance

45. Who prophesized that social sins would be punished?
Tao-te-Ching is abook written on Taoism not Confucianism
Amos
Shiva
A Shaman

46. The highest level religious leaders for the Shi'ites are called __________
Artha
Half bird - half woman that sing irresistible songs
Pluto was the leader of Hades
Mujtahids

47. Which religion believes the cow is a holy creature?
Hinduism
Mujtahids
Tao-te-Ching is abook written on Taoism not Confucianism
The Mishna and the Gemara

48. What is an atman?
It is a law that is not from the Torah
Maktabs
the soul
The Mishna and the Gemara

49. The magical potency of mantras (in later philosphy this term was referred to as the World Soul)
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others
Brahman
A prophet
Did not persecute non-believers

50. What book outlined cases with rulings by rabbis?
It is a law that is not from the Torah
The Mishnah
The importance of feeling suffering is not one of them
Abraham