2. Who is Siddhartha Gautama of the Sakya?
(a) The founder of Sikhism.
(b) The first Hindu.
(c) The awakened one, the Buddha.
(d) The author of the Hindu Vidas.

3. How might the rise of Buddhism be compared to the Protestant Reformation?
(a) It started as a rebellion against a human head of religion.
(b) It was a reaction to the excesses of the Hinduism of the day.
(c) It started by Siddhartha nailing theses to a temple door.
(d) It started because people could not read.

4. What is Confucius' trinity?
(a) Man, Heaven, and Earth
(b) Fire, Wind, and Water
(c) Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
(d) Servants, Kings, and God

5. What does the Hindu say would happen if the divine base of everything is removed?
(a) The natural world would disintegrate into nothing.
(b) Religion would die out.
(c) People would be free to do as they willed.
(d) The stars would shift their constellations.

6. What did the Buddha think about religious rituals?
(a) He invented new ones for his day.
(b) He taught they were necessary exercises.
(c) He thought they had been neglected.
(d) He ridiculed rites as mere superstitions.

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

8. What is the Chinese concept of ch'i?
(a) Herbal tea remedies
(b) Clearing the mind
(c) Spirituality
(d) Vital energy

9. Why did Confucius earn the title of First Teacher?
(a) Because he was first a teacher and then a politician
(b) Because no one had ever been a teacher before
(c) Because he taught the Emperor
(d) Because of his prominence in China as a teacher

10. What is the result of seeking wealth, fame, and power?
(a) Competition, which is always precarious
(b) More failure than success
(c) A lifetime of hard work
(d) Either celebrity or noteriety

11. According to Hinduism who has the spiritual ideas of infinite being, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss?
(a) All humans already posses these things but until a certain point they remain hidden.
(b) Only philosophers can possess that information.
(c) Only one individual per lifetime has this knowledge.
(d) Only the oldest gurus understand these things.

12. When does karma come into effect?
(a) When the spirit is in insect form.
(b) When the spirit occupies a human form.
(c) When the spirit has reincarnated.
(d) When the spirit resides in a cow.

13. What type of yoga approaches religion on the basis of work?
(a) Karma yoga
(b) Atman yoga
(c) Sannyasin yoga
(d) Raja yoga

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

15. How does the yogi eliminate distractions of the mind during raja yoga?
(a) The yogi concentrates on one thing to the exclusion of all others.
(b) The yogi lies flat of his back.
(c) The yogi puts cotton in his ears.
(d) The yogi concentrates on reading.