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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what were the minor, or writing prophets, concerned?
(a) Perserving the power of the priests
(b) Councils for revising Jewish law
(c) Social inequities and moral delinquency
(d) Keeping an accurate history of the kings

2. What does Huston Smith say is the daunting task as the world grows smaller?
(a) Selecting one religion for all
(b) Finding a place to live
(c) Building better weaponry
(d) Improving human relations

3. When did the Christian church become the official religion in Rome?
(a) 420 A. D.
(b) 33 A. D.
(c) 313 A. D.
(d) 1054 A. D.

4. At what point did Jesus' followers begin to accept him as God in human form?
(a) Some time after his death
(b) The first time they heard him speak
(c) When there was a massive earthquake
(d) When he healed a blind man

5. What was evident in the bearers of the Good News?
(a) Their release from fear, guilt, and ego
(b) That they were uneducated
(c) The different way they dressed
(d) They all had university degrees

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Muslims justify Islam's history of aggressiveness?

2. Where did the mystical body of Christ come into being?

3. What was the avowed purpose of Jesus?

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

5. What is the hope of the Jewish people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is it exact to say that primal religions are all polytheistic?

2. Tell briefly what caused the Protestant movement.

3. What is the unique characteristic of primal oral religions?

4. What about religions other than the historical religions from Confucianism to Christianity?

5. Identify the four major sects of the Jews during the life of Jesus.

6. What is the divergent ideas over the Jews as God's elect people today?

7. Briefly describe Jesus as the originator of the Christian religion.

8. What does Huston Smith see as the only possible solution for the world today?

9. What impact did Jewish history make on the world?

10. What is the current condition among the primal religions?

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