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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX, The Primal Religions, Conclusion, | Chapter X, A Final Examination, The Relations between Religions,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the sect of Islam that is introspective and mystic?
(a) Sunnism
(b) Sheikhism
(c) Sufism
(d) Shi'aism

2. What does Huston Smith suggest is a way to look at the different religions?
(a) Like an explosion in a mattress factory
(b) Like the pieces of broken pottery when you drop a plate
(c) Like a stained glass window where differences come together to form a picture
(d) Like interference on a television signal

3. What is the central essence of the Catholic mass?
(a) The birth, death, and ascension of Christ
(b) The death, burial, and resurrection of Christ
(c) Candles, incense, and holy water
(d) Faith, hope, and charity

4. How does the aboriginal see the figures of antiquity?
(a) As geniuses that fashioned everything so perfectly in the ordinary world
(b) As gods who made the world
(c) As special creatures put here by God to fashion the world
(d) As primatives who had to learn everything the hard way

5. What is the blend that makes up the Jewish interpretation of man?
(a) He is a blend of matter and energy.
(b) He is a blend of animal and vegetable.
(c) He is a blend of dust and the divine.
(d) He is a blend of thought and action.

Short Answer Questions

1. What appears to be a contradiction in Taoist thought?

2. Why is there no word for "art" in tribal American Indian languages?

3. What two things became most important after Rome destroyed the temple in Jerusalem?

4. What were Jesus' words designed to cause people to do?

5. What is the Jewish view of the God-man relationship?

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