Question 1. 1. (TCO 1) Belief in many gods is called:
(Points : 4)
polytheism.
monotheism.
agnosticism.
atheism.
Question 2. 2. (TCO 1) Belief in one God is called: (Points
: 4)
monotheism.
polytheism.
atheism.
agnosticism.
Question 3. 3. (TCO 2) Who was the German theologian who
argued in The Idea of the Holy that religions emerge when people experience
that aspect of reality which is essentially mysterious? (Points : 4)
William James
Carl Gustav
Jung
Rudolf Otto
E.B. Tylor
Question 4. 4. (TCO 4) Who was the French sociologist who
argued that religious behavior is relative to the society in which it is found
and that a society will use a religion to reinforce its own values? (Points :
4)
William James
Wilhelm Schmidt
Carl Gustav
Jung
Emile Durkheim
Question 5. 5. (TCO 4) What is the name of the Austrian
ethnographer and philologist who argued that all humankind once believed in a
single High God and that to this simple monotheism later beliefs in lesser gods
and spirits were added? (Points : 4)
James Frazer
William James
Wilhelm Schmidt
Carl Gustav
Jung
Question 6. 6. (TCO 8) Vedic religion was: (Points : 4)
patriarchal and
polytheistic.
matriarchal and
polytheistic.
monotheistic.
monistic.
Question 7. 7. (TCO 8) The term meaning non-harm or
nonviolence is: (Points : 4)
moksha.
guru.
ahimsa.
maya.
Question 8. 8. (TCO 9) The moral law of cause and effect
that determines the direction of rebirth is: (Points : 4)
ahimsa.
karma.
shakti.
puja.
Question 9. 9. (TCO 10) Both Jainism and Sikhism: (Points :
4)
practice
vegetarianism.
advocate
ahimsa.
are
monotheistic.
view the human
being as composite of spirit and matter.
Question 10. 10. (TCO 8) The Buddha’s first disciples were:
(Points : 4)
his wife and
child.
his five former
ascetic companions.
the great king
Ashoka.
members of the
warrior-noble class.
Question 11. 11. (TCO 8) The Buddhist term for sorrow or
suffering is: (Points : 4)
dukkha.
tanha.
anatta.
anichcha.
Question 12. 12. (TCO 8) By his teachings, Confucius hoped
to: (Points : 4)
counter the
influx of Buddhism into China.
produce
virtuous people and create a harmonious society.
make a break
with the past and focus China on the future.
draw people
closer to Tian (Heaven).
Question 13. 13. (TCO 8) Confucius taught that people are:
(Points : 4)
not born good
but must be taught goodness.
naturally good
and should be left alone.
individuals first and members of a society
second.
selfish and
need strict laws to control them.
Question 14. 14. (TCO 9) Which is not a Daoist value?
(Points : 4)
Simplicity
Spontaneity
Sensing
movements of nature
Formal
education
Question 15. 15. (TCO 9) In Zhuangzi’s (Chuang Tzu’s) famous
dream, he was not certain that he was not: (Points : 4)
Confucius.
an ox.
a butterfly.
a Daoist.
Question 16. 16. (TCO 5) All of the following ancient world
religions are major world religions except: (Points : 4)
Buddhism.
Hinduism.
Shinto.
Confucianism.
Question 17. 17. (TCO 11) Shinto is characterized by:
(Points : 4)
respect for
nature and a centralized religious bureaucracy.
love of beauty
but little influence on Japanese art.
love of beauty
but few religious rituals.
respect for
nature and many religious rituals.
Question 18. 18. (TCO 6) The Hebrews trace themselves to an
ancestor named: (Points : 4)
Adam.
Abraham.
Moses.
Amos.
Question 19. 19. (TCO 6) The first King of Israel was:
(Points : 4)
Daniel.
Moses.
David.
Saul.
Question 20. 20. (TCO 6) A joyful spring festival that
recalls the Hebrews’ exodus from Egypt and freedom from oppression is: (Points
: 4)
Yom Kippur.
Passover
(Seder).
Purim.
Hanukkah.
Question 21. 21. (TCO 7) The view that God’s imminent divine
judgment and the end of the world is near is: (Points : 4)
messianism.
apocalypticism.
redemption.
schism.
Question 22. 22. (TCO 7) The most Jewish of the Gospels is:
(Points : 4)
Matthew.
Mark.
Luke.
John.
Question 23. 23. (TCO 6) Like Judaism, Islam forbids:
(Points : 4)
eating
unleavened bread.
wearing of
veils by women.
eating pork.
wearing gold
jewelry.
Question 24. 24. (TCO 6) The month of fasting, the ninth
month of the Muslim calendar, is known as: (Points : 4)
Id al-Adha.
Kabah.
Ramadan.
Qur’an.
Question 25. 25. (TCO 12) The youngest alternative path
studied in this chapter is: (Points : 4)
Santería.
Falun Gong.
Theosophy.
Baha’i.
Page 2
Question 1. 1. (TCO 4) Compare and contrast Carl Gustav
Jung’s theory about the origin of religions with William James’s theory. How do
each of these psychologists view religion (positively or negatively)? Next,
analyze how the insights of Jung or James might illuminate your religious
tradition or the tradition with which you are the most familiar. How would Jung
or James understand that tradition? Use specific examples to support your
answer (e.g., a specific belief or ritual).
(Points : 50)
Question 2. 2. (TCO 9) Identify and analyze the Three Marks
of Reality; in particular, concept of the no-soul doctrine. How do these differ
from the Hindu concept of reality? Include enough details to support your
answer.
(Points : 50)
Question 3. 3. (TCO 3) Explain and evaluate Thomas Aquinas’
Cosmological Argument for the existence of God: The first and plainest is the
method that proceeds from the point of view of motion. It is certain and in
accord with experience, that things on earth undergo change. Now, everything
that is moved is moved by something; nothing, indeed, is changed, except it is
changed to something which it is in potentiality. Moreover, anything moves in
accordance with something actually existing; change itself, is nothing else
than to bring forth something from potentiality into actuality. Now, nothing
can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something
actually existing: thus heat in action, as fire, makes fire-wood, which is hot
in potentiality, to be hot actually, and through this process, changes itself.
The same thing cannot at the same time be actually and potentially the same
thing, but only in regard to different things. What is actually hot cannot be
at the same time potentially hot, but it is possible for it at the same time to
be potentially cold.
It is impossible, then, that anything should be both mover
and the thing moved, in regard to the same thing and in the same way, or that
it should move itself. Everything, therefore, is moved by something else. If,
then, that by which it is moved, is also moved, this must be moved by something
still different, and this, again, by something else. But this process cannot go
on to infinity because there would not be any first mover, nor, because of this
fact, anything else in motion, as the succeeding things would not move except
because of what is moved by the first mover, just as a stick is not moved
except through what is moved from the hand. Therefore it is necessary to go
back to some first mover, which is itself moved by nothing–and this all men
know as God.
Briefly explain and then evaluate this proof for the
existence of God.
(Points : 50)
Question 4. 4. (TCO 11) Identify and analyze three basic
patterns in indigeneous religions. Use examples from traditional Hawaiian
religion to support your answer.
(Points : 50)
