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DSST World Religions2

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1. What is shomerim?
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
Jesus was the Messiah
Diwali
Guards for a dead body

2. Which Christian denomination is known for speaking in tongues?
Pentecostals
A way of devotion
Not a goal
Knowledge

3. Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 A.D.
Diwali
Hajj
Hijrah
Brahman

4. Indian Caste System (Hindu)
The Tanakh
It is a law that is not from the Torah
YI
Brahmin - (Priests) - Kshatryia (Warriors) - Viasya (Merchants - Landowners) Shudra (commoners - peasants - servants) Lowest was Outcastes / Untouchables

5. What group of christians try to defend their beliefs with facts?
The Amish
Apologetics
Mercilessness
The Triptaka (Vinaya - Sutta - Abhidhamma)

6. What is the name of the three baskets of Buddhism?
The canon is an official list of holy scriptures
Artha
Shraddha are death rites
The Triptaka (Vinaya - Sutta - Abhidhamma)

7. Who of the following did NOT pen one of the New Testaments Gospels? John - Luke - Mark - Matthew - Paul
Paul
Hinduism
Mercilessness
Pluto was the leader of Hades

8. What is a bodhisattva?
Brahmin
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others
The covenant refers to an agreement between God and Jews (anciently Hebrews) only
Sufis

9. How do the Taoists hope to achieve longevity?
A prophet
Artha
Feng Shui - Diet - Sexual Restraints - Breath Control and Searching for the Isle of the Blessed
8 folds

10. Which religion believes the cow is a holy creature?
Brahmanas
Diwali
Hinduism
Jesus was the Messiah

11. What is a pyramid structre erected by the Mesopotamians called?
Shiva
A Ziggurat
Shraddha are death rites
Maktabs

12. Who is the Hindu god of war and storms?
Baptists
Hadith
Indra
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others

13. Which of the following is NOT one of the four divine beings of the Greek universe? Love - Chaos - Knowledge - Earth or the Abyss
Half bird - half woman that sing irresistible songs
Yom Kippur
Knowledge
Apologetics

14. What food label means that a food is fit for Passover
Abraham
Shiva
A P
Karma

15. What are 4 of the Goals of Life in Hinduism Belief?
Enlightened One
Half bird - half woman that sing irresistible songs
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)
The Jade Emperor

16. Buddhism is an offshoot of what religion?
A prophet
Hinduism
Episcapalian
Apologetics

17. Who of the following was NOT one of the Twelve Apostles? John - Andrew - Bartholomew - Gabriel - Simon
Sannygasu
Gabriel
Sealife is not one of the 6 realms of existence
8 folds

18. Which of the following is NOT one of the Native American's religious rituals? Sweat Lodge Ceremony - Vision Quest - Smudging - Seance - Making of Relations
The Jade Emperor
Baptists
Seance
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others

19. Political Aspirations are ______ in the Hindu belief system.
Hades
Guards for a dead body
Dharma - artha - and kama.
Not a goal

20. What are the ideal stages in the Buddhist life and which is not?
The release from the samsara
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
Hellenists
The Fisherman

21. __________low level Shi'ite religous leaders.
Infant is NOT - Diseased man - Ascetic - Dead Man and Old man are passing sights
the soul
Mullahs
Zhu-Xi

22. The three paths to salvation (yogas) are...
Dharma - artha - and kama.
Shih Ching
Karma
Hadith

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

24. Who was considered an intermediary between the natural and spiritual worlds?
Creation
A Shaman
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
Abraham

25. What is known is righteousness in Confucianism?
YI
Gautama
Mercilessness
Baptists

26. What is Jataka?

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27. __________are the rituals that are said to wield control over the gods and nature.
The Triptaka (Vinaya - Sutta - Abhidhamma)
Brahmanas
Guards for a dead body
Seance

28. What is the Jewish Bible called?
Not a goal
A way of devotion
Right Penance
The Tanakh

29. Who was the goddess of love?
Guards for a dead body
Aphrodite
Diwali
Tao-te-Ching is abook written on Taoism not Confucianism

30. Which is the largest Islamic sect?
Shiva - Brahma and Vishnu
Right Penance
Sunni
Hajj

31. The Islamic people are called?
Muslims
The Tanakh
Amos
Sunni

32. Popes wear a cermonial ring called the Ring of __________
Tao-te-Ching is abook written on Taoism not Confucianism
Mullahs
Elisha
The Fisherman

33. What is the highest class in the varna - the ___________is a member of the priestly class of society
Muhammad
Jews outside of Israel
Brahmin
Infant is NOT - Diseased man - Ascetic - Dead Man and Old man are passing sights

34. In Greek Mythology what is a Siren?
Paul
Mujtahids
Half bird - half woman that sing irresistible songs
Shiva

35. What is shradah?
Amos
Shraddha are death rites
Zhu-Xi
Karma

36. What types of Christian Inquisition are there? Which did not exist
Muslims
Sealife is not one of the 6 realms of existence
Micah
Italian Inquisition did not exist - there was the Roman - Medieval - Portugese - and Spanish

37. Who is the Islamic Prohphet
Hosea
Muhammad
The Fisherman
Creation

38. What gods make up The Trimuriti?
Creation - Preservation and Destruction
Shiva - Brahma and Vishnu
The Tanakh
Elijah

39. Which approach to religion studies the relationship between the individual and the religious community?
Gabriel
The importance of feeling suffering is not one of them
The Sociology of Religion
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)

40. Who do the Hebrews believe they are descendents of ?
Jews
Hadith
Abraham
8 folds

41. What is an atman?
The Sociology of Religion
the soul
Sufis
Baptists

42. What is moksha?
The Jade Emperor
Did not persecute non-believers
The release from the samsara
Hajj

43. Which Christian denomination is known for its separation from society and rejection of modern technology?
Gautama
The Amish
It is the story of buddha's previous life
Episcapalian

44. Which of the following denominations is characterized by a middle way between Catholocism and Protestantism?
Seance
Hades
Hadith
Episcapalian

45. Another word for Islamic Mystics
Ham (non kosher)
Abraham
Not a goal
Sufis

46. Who was considered the first Buddha?
Speaking in Tongues
Gautama
Brahmin
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

47. Pilgrimage to Mecca. One of the five pillars of the Islamic faith.
Creation
Gautama
A Ziggurat
Hajj

48. Bhakti Marga is?
A way of devotion
Creation
Sealife is not one of the 6 realms of existence
Right Penance

49. The Supreme Being. The name of God.
Allah
The Amish
Infant is NOT - Diseased man - Ascetic - Dead Man and Old man are passing sights
The covenant refers to an agreement between God and Jews (anciently Hebrews) only

50. Which religion stresses the creation of gentlemen and propriety?
Paul
Jesus was the Messiah
Pentecostals
Confucianism