Deck 10: Religion

Question 1

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ sat under a tree for forty days and forty nights

Answer 1

21

Question 2

____ 3. The Qur'an presents the commandments of God.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

___ Hebrew prophet who foretold the coming of a messiah

Answer 3

20

Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ meaning of word Islam

Question 5

____ 4. The Qur'an contains references to Jesus and Moses.

Question 6

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ not born a Christian, but created the doctrine of faith

Question 7

____ 1. Confucius did not include the concepts of yin and yang in his philosophy.

Question 8

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ country in which Buddhism originated

Question 9

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ advanced logical arguments for existence of God

Question 10

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ first five books of Hebrew Bible

Question 11

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ reductio ad absurdum

Question 12

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ worshiped a goddess who was part-human and part-fish

Question 13

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ country to which Zen Buddhism was first brought

Question 14

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ Unmoved Mover

Question 15

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ instructed Mohammed to spread the word of Allah

Question 16

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ a moral summing up of one's deeds that determines where one will be in the next lifetime

Question 17

____ 5. Egypt became polytheistic after the death of Akhenaton.

Question 18

____ 2. The coming of the Buddha was foretold in The Mahabharata.

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ to do without doing

Question 20

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Torah
2. submission
3. Maimonides
4. meditation
5. China
6. Gabriel
7. Jeremiah
8. Talmud
9. Aristotle
10. Augustine
11. Sufi
12. Inuit
13. India
14. Taoism
15. The Mahabharata
16. Japan
17. karma
18. charity
19. Job
20. Isaiah
21. Siddhartha
22. atheism
___ subject of debate between God and Satan

Question 21

____ 14. One of the world's richest men, John D. Rockfeller, wrote in his autobiography that his wealth showed he was favored by God.

Question 22

____ 7. William James advanced the argument that the nonexistence of God could be proved by logical means.

Question 23

____ 6. Brahma is the belief that God created the universe from nothing.

Question 24

____ 10. Thomas Aquinas created a logical system of thought designed to persuade believers that God did not exist.

Question 25

The major Christian philosopher of the early Middle Ages:

A) Job
B) Paul
C) Socrates
D) Augustine
E) Maimonides

Question 26

____ 12. The religious thought in Dante's Divine Comedy was influenced by a sonnet by John Donne.

Question 27

The belief that it is impossible to know whether God exists:

A) brahmanism
B) enlightenment
C) atheism
D) dharma
E) agnosticism

Question 28

____ 15. During the Middle Ages, the Arab world was the center of culture and education.

Question 29

In the Eightfold Path, "right" means

A) seeing things as they are.
B) seeing things as you would like them to be.
C) political correctness.
D) accepting the wisdom of the elders.
E) not giving offense to your enemies.

Question 30

Augustine believed that evil was

A) the absence of good.
B) punishment for sin.
C) the pain of hell.
D) only in the mind.
E) an omen that the end of the world was approaching.

Question 31

The Shiite Muslims and the Sunni Muslims each believe that

A) Muslim leadership belongs to Mohammed's cousin.
B) Muslim leadership belongs to Mohammed's father-in-law.
C) there is no afterlife.
D) the control of the Islamic faith is rightfully theirs.
E) Islamic tradition is too demanding for its followers.

Question 32

The Taoist doctrine of wu wei requires

A) chanting.
B) tending to the sick.
C) moralizing.
D) not doing.
E) praying.

Question 33

To the question "What is life?" both Hinduism and Buddhism offer the same answer:

A) bliss
B) submission
C) opportunity
D) nirvana
E) suffering

Question 34

____ 11. Moses was presumed to be the author of the Torah.

Question 35

____ 13. The Alhambra, in Granada, Spain, is an example of Islamic architecture.

Question 36

Commemorating the communication of the Qur'an to Mohammed is the annual period known as

A) Sufi.
B) Tet.
C) Easter.
D) Whitsuntide.
E) Ramadan.

Question 37

____ 8. Thomas Aquinas nailed his 95 proposals for church reform on a church door in Wittenberg.

Question 38

The Augustinian idea of predestination states that

A) after death, the faithful go to heaven.
B) God's existence is already proven.
C) the course of our lives is already determined before we are born.
D) people should pray before going on a journey.
E) sin is permissible if it is arranged beforehand.

Question 39

____ 9. Moksha in the Hindu religion became heaven in the Christian religion.

Question 40

The book of the Bible that implies that God created the world out of nothing:

A) Genesis
B) John
C) Job
D) Isaiah
E) Mark

Question 41

The Greek tragedy to which The Book of Job has been compared is:

A) Oedipus Rex
B) Oedipus at Colonus
C) Prometheus Bound
D) Hippolytus
E) The Persians

Question 42

Carl Sagan's statement, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," can be used to justify

A) atheistic logic.
B) reductio ad absurdum.
C) spiritualism.
D) a belief in Satan.
E) a belief in God.

Question 43

The synoptic problem concerns

A) the Four Noble Truths.
B) the four gospels.
C) the Eightfold Path.
D) disputed interpretations of the Torah.
E) the meaning of certain obscure Sanskrit terms in Hindu scripture.

Question 44

In the phrase creatio ex nihilo, what does nihilo mean?

A) everything
B) nothing
C) eternity
D) preexistence
E) atoms

Question 45

Aristotle's Unmoved Mover is

A) a cause of the first effect.
B) a cold and lifeless universe.
C) an ordered universe.
D) Christian doctrine.
E) polytheistic.