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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, Christianity, The Historical Jesus, | Chapter VIII, Christianity, The Christ of Faith, | Chapter VIII, Christianity, The End and the Beginning,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the objective of philosophical Taoism?
(a) Reasoning things out by questions and answers
(b) Quietude that is expressed as pure effectiveness in simplicity
(c) Figuring out the complexities of living
(d) Making something useful for all humanity

2. What were Jesus' words designed to cause people to do?
(a) Overturn Roman rule
(b) See things in a different way
(c) Be able to heal the sick
(d) Show them how to become rich

3. What did the Buddha see as the downfall of men?
(a) Ignorance and not sin
(b) Selfishness
(c) Rebellion against good
(d) His sinful nature

4. Who was the person from whom Christianity originated?
(a) Jesus, a Jewish tax collector
(b) Jesus, a Jewish fisherman
(c) Jesus, a high priest of the Jews
(d) Jesus, a Jewish carpenter

5. What is the Taoist outlook on good and evil?
(a) They are representations of heaven and earth.
(b) They are one and the same thing.
(c) They are not opposites but revolve around each other.
(d) They have nothing to do with yin/yang.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the guidelines for right conduct in Buddhism resemble?

2. What area of the world did Christianity quickly take over?

3. What is it that Taoists reject?

4. What is the viewpoint of the Theravada Buddhist?

5. What was the avowed purpose of Jesus?

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