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DSST World Religions2

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was considered an intermediary between the natural and spiritual worlds?
The Amish
A Shaman
Shih Ching
Brahma

2. Who was the goddess of love?
Aphrodite
Baptists
Right Penance
A P

3. Pure land is a denomination in what religion?
Pentecostals
Hades
Pure land is a denomination of Buddhism
Knowledge

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the four divine beings of the Greek universe? Love - Chaos - Knowledge - Earth or the Abyss
Mullahs
Amos
Guards for a dead body
Knowledge

5. What gods make up The Trimuriti?
World Soul
Shiva - Brahma and Vishnu
Kharijites
Holy trinity

6. What is Jataka?

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7. The three paths to salvation (yogas) are...
The release from the samsara
A Shaman
Dharma - artha - and kama.
Mercilessness

8. What are 4 of the Goals of Life in Hinduism Belief?
The Sociology of Religion
Shraddha are death rites
Pleasure(Kama) - Status and riches (Artha) Moral law (Dharma) and Pursuit of Nirvana (Moksha)
The Mishnah

9. Who was considered the first Buddha?
Brahmanas
A Ziggurat
Gautama
Karma

10. Who likened his struggle with the Lord to his unfaithful wife - but forgiveness prevailed?
Enlightened One
Aphrodite
Hosea
Muhammad

11. What is Canon?
Muslims
The canon is an official list of holy scriptures
Dharma - artha - and kama.
The Amish

12. What is known is righteousness in Confucianism?
The Fisherman
YI
Jesus was the Messiah
8 folds

13. Another word for Islamic Mystics
Shih Ching
Hajj
Sufis
The Triptaka (Vinaya - Sutta - Abhidhamma)

14. Who do the Hebrews believe they are descendents of ?
the soul
Abraham
Hadith
Hinduism

15. The _____ is the writing of the prophets

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16. Which of the following Five Classics is the Classic of Odes? Shu Ching - Shih Ching - I Ching - Ch'un Chi'iu or Li Ching
Seance
The Sociology of Religion
Hinduism
Shih Ching

17. The believe in the divinity of everything
Pantheism
Shih Ching
The Triptaka (Vinaya - Sutta - Abhidhamma)
Not a goal

18. Who encouraged a violent revolution?
The importance of feeling suffering is not one of them
The Mishnah
Shinto
Elisha

19. Which religion stresses the creation of gentlemen and propriety?
Sufis
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others
Gabriel
Confucianism

20. ____________believed the caliph should be elected upon merit.
Kharijites
Speaking in Tongues
Jews
Elisha

21. What is the name of the three baskets of Buddhism?
Abraham
Hadith
Diwali
The Triptaka (Vinaya - Sutta - Abhidhamma)

22. The Supreme Being. The name of God.
It is someone who has attained enlightenment - but chooses to stay for a while to help others
Shih Ching
A way of devotion
Allah

23. What is diaspora?
A Shaman
Jews outside of Israel
The release from the samsara
Pluto was the leader of Hades

24. 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
A way of devotion
Brahma
Did not persecute non-believers
Shiva

25. Which of the following denominations is characterized by a middle way between Catholocism and Protestantism?
The Tanakh
Sunni
A P
Episcapalian

26. Which of the following is NOT a Catholic practice? Confession - Stations of the cross - Last Rites - Speaking in Tongues - Vernation of Saints
Yom Kippur
Speaking in Tongues
Amos
Hades

27. What is the holy wanderer called?
Sannygasu
The Torah
Mullahs
Pluto was the leader of Hades

28. Indian Caste System (Hindu)
Did not persecute non-believers
Italian Inquisition did not exist - there was the Roman - Medieval - Portugese - and Spanish
Diwali
Brahmin - (Priests) - Kshatryia (Warriors) - Viasya (Merchants - Landowners) Shudra (commoners - peasants - servants) Lowest was Outcastes / Untouchables

29. What is the Jewish Bible called?
It is a law that is not from the Torah
Brahmin - (Priests) - Kshatryia (Warriors) - Viasya (Merchants - Landowners) Shudra (commoners - peasants - servants) Lowest was Outcastes / Untouchables
The Amish
The Tanakh

30. In Greek Mythology what is a Siren?
The canon is an official list of holy scriptures
Episcapalian
Hosea
Half bird - half woman that sing irresistible songs

31. What is another word for polytheism - i.e. believing in many gods
Hellenists
8 folds
Abraham
A Shaman

32. Which Christian denomination is known for speaking in tongues?
Pentecostals
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
Hadith
Jews

33. Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 A.D.
8 folds
Did not persecute non-believers
World Soul
Hijrah

34. What is Takkanah?
It is a law that is not from the Torah
Right Penance
Hajj
Sufis

35. __________low level Shi'ite religous leaders.
Mullahs
Hajj
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
The Tanakh

36. What is the highest class in the varna - the ___________is a member of the priestly class of society
Nebi'im
The Triptaka (Vinaya - Sutta - Abhidhamma)
Brahmin
Artha

37. What types of Christian Inquisition are there? Which did not exist
The Fisherman
Paul
Seance
Italian Inquisition did not exist - there was the Roman - Medieval - Portugese - and Spanish

38. What book outlined cases with rulings by rabbis?
Jesus was the Messiah
Creation
The Mishnah
Hellenists

39. ____ is the most important according to the Artha Shastra - Hinduism
The Fisherman
The release from the samsara
Gabriel
Artha

40. Who was the most influential teacher of Neo-Confucianism?
Kharijites
Seance
Zhu-Xi
A prophet

41. Who believes in the Holy Trinity?
Baptists
Yom Kippur
Mishna and the Gemara
Gabriel

42. Buddhism is an offshoot of what religion?
Baptists
Hijrah
Right Penance
Hinduism

43. The Islamic people are called?
Hinduism
Guards for a dead body
Muslims
Holy trinity

44. __________are the rituals that are said to wield control over the gods and nature.
Elijah
The Amish
Brahmanas
A way of devotion

45. Pilgrimage to Mecca. One of the five pillars of the Islamic faith.
Hajj
The Tanakh
Muhammad
Amos

46. What food label means that a food is fit for Passover
Hijrah
Guards for a dead body
A P
The Amish

47. How many folds are in the Buddhist path to enlightenment?
8 folds
Sunni
Shraddha are death rites
The Tanakh

48. Who of the following was NOT one of the Twelve Apostles? John - Andrew - Bartholomew - Gabriel - Simon
Guards for a dead body
Seance
Hades
Gabriel

49. 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
Confession of sins is not a pillar
Shiva - Brahma and Vishnu
Not a goal

50. In Judiasm who speaks for God?
Baptists
Brahma
A prophet
The release from the samsara