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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI, Islam, The Standing Miracle, | Chapter VI, Islam, Basic theological Concepts, | Chapter VI, Islam, The Five Pillars,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the subject matter of the Buddha's first sermon?
(a) The Eight-fold Path
(b) The Four Nobel Truths
(c) The Way to Enlightenment
(d) The Wheel of Fortune

2. How did the Taoist church devise a way of harnessing higher power for human benefit?
(a) By opening schools for magicians
(b) By organizing religious retreats
(c) By perfecting astrology
(d) By assuming the reality of magical intervention

3. What major change did Islam cause?
(a) Great social and moral change among the Arabic people
(b) Putting women on an equal status as men
(c) Exemplifying the different classes of people
(d) Tollerance for different religions

4. How do Muslims view the Koran?
(a) As a history of the relationship between God and man
(b) As a book without specific rules
(c) As a history of the Prophet
(d) Simply as the words of Allah

5. What are the Hindu stages of life?
(a) Fetus, birth, education, work
(b) Birth, separation, retirement, death
(c) Student, marriage, retirement, detachment
(d) Infant, student, career, enjoyment

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the conflict of Confucius' teaching and the mood of the times?

2. How does the yogi eliminate distractions of the mind during raja yoga?

3. Why did Confucius earn the title of First Teacher?

4. In the caste system, who receives the greatest punishment for wrong doing?

5. What is the irony of assigning god-like attributes to the Buddha?

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