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Question 1. 1. (TCO 1) The word religion literally means:
(Points : 4)
to bind.
meditate on.
worship.
rise above.
Question 2. 2. (TCO 1) Belief in one God is called: (Points
: 4)
monotheism.
polytheism.
atheism.
agnosticism.
Question 3. 3. (TCO 2) Who was the American psychologist who
viewed religion as a positive way of fulfilling needs and praised its positive
influence on the lives of individuals? (Points : 4)
James Frazer
Carl Gustav Jung
Sigmund Freud
William James
Question 4. 4. (TCO 4) Who was the Scottish anthropologist
and author of The Golden Bough who saw the origins of religion in early
attempts by human beings to influence nature and who identified religion as an intermediate
stage between magic and science? (Points : 4)
James Frazer
Rudolf Otto
William James
Wilhelm Schmidt
Question 5. 5. (TCO 4) Name the American psychologist who
viewed religion as positive way of fulfilling needs and praised its positive
influence on the lives of individuals. (Points : 4)
James Frazer
Carl Gustav
Jung
E.B. Tylor
William James
Question 6. 6. (TCO 8) The second-ranking caste consisted
of: (Points : 4)
priests.
merchants.
nobles and warriors.
artisans.
Question 7. 7. (TCO 8) The term meaning non-harm or
nonviolence is: (Points : 4)
moksha.
guru.
ahimsa.
maya.
Question 8. 8. (TCO 9) In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna
counsels Arjuna to: (Points : 4)
meditate to experience moksha.
work unselfishly for others.
adhere to one’s duty (dharma) in this life.
engage in nonviolent resistance.
Question 9. 9. (TCO 10) Both Jainism and Sikhism: (Points :
4)
practice vegetarianism.
advocate ahimsa.
are monotheistic.
view the human being as composite of spirit and matter.
Question 10. 10. (TCO 8) The Buddha’s first disciples were:
(Points : 4)
his wife and child.
his five former ascetic companions.
the great king Ashoka.
members of the warrior-noble class.
Question 11. 11. (TCO 8) The Buddhist term for sorrow or
suffering is: (Points : 4)
dukkha.
tanha.
anatta.
anichcha.
Question 12. 12. (TCO 8) The Chinese word for
“propriety,” savoir faire, “ritual” is: (Points : 4)
Ren (jen).
Wen.
Shu.
Li.
Question 13. 13. (TCO 8) For Confucius, a person who follows
the way of heaven: (Points : 4)
lives close to nature.
is a great warrior.
lives the Golden Mean and avoids extremes.
is meek and humble.
Question 14. 14. (TCO 9) Which is not a Daoist value? (Points
: 4)
Simplicity
Spontaneity
Sensing
movements of nature
Formal
education
Question 15. 15. (TCO 9) Daoists view death as: (Points : 4)
a great evil.
a predictable transformation of nature.
an offering to the ancestors.
necessary for one’s next rebirth.
Question 16. 16. (TCO 5) All of the following ancient world
religions are major world religions except: (Points : 4)
Buddhism.
Hinduism.
Shinto.
Confucianism.
Question 17. 17. (TCO 11) Shinto is characterized by:
(Points : 4)
respect for nature and a centralized religious bureaucracy.
love of beauty but little influence on Japanese art.
love of beauty but few religious rituals.
respect for nature and many religious rituals.
Question 18. 18. (TCO 6) A contract between the Hebrews and
their God was called a: (Points : 4)
mitzvah.
covenant.
yarmulke.
commandment.
Question 19. 19. (TCO 6) A savior figure to be sent by God
to bring in God’s kingdom is the: (Points : 4)
King.
Suffering
Servant.
Messiah.
Prophet.
Question 20. 20. (TCO 6) The Jewish Day of Atonement is:
(Points : 4)
Hanukkah.
Passover.
Purim.
Yom Kippur.
Question 21. 21. (TCO 7) The view that God’s imminent divine
judgment and the end of the world is near is: (Points : 4)
messianism.
apocalypticism.
redemption.
schism.
Question 22. 22. (TCO 7) “Good news” (Middle
English); an account of the life of Jesus means: (Points : 4)
theater.
Gospel.
apostle.
indulgence.
Question 23. 23. (TCO 6) Muslims believe in: (Points : 4)
resurrection of the body.
a final judgment.
neither a resurrection of the body nor a final judgment.
both a resurrection of the body and a final judgment.
Question 24. 24. (TCO 6) What is the word for a pilgrimage
to Mecca? (Points : 4)
Hajj
Dhikr
Hadith
Sura
Question 25. 25. (TCO 12) The youngest alternative path
studied in this chapter is: (Points : 4)
Santería.
Falun Gong.
Theosophy.
Baha’i.
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Question 1. 1. (TCO 4) Compare and contrast Sigmund Freud’s
theory about the origin of religions with William James’s theory. How does each
of these psychologists view religion (positively or negatively)? Now analyze
how the insights of Freud or James might illuminate your religious tradition or
the tradition with which you are the most familiar. How would Freud or James
understand that tradition? Use specific examples to support your answer (e.g.,
a specific belief or ritual).
Question 2. 2. (TCO 9) Identify and analyze the Three Marks
of Reality; in particular, concept of the no-soul doctrine. How do these differ
from the Hindu concept of reality? Include enough details to support your
answer.
Question 3. 3. (TCO 3) Explain and evaluate Paley’s
Teleological Argument for the Existence of God: In crossing a heath, suppose I
pitched my foot against a stone and were asked how the stone came to be there,
I might possibly answer that for anything I knew to the contrary it had lain
there forever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of
this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be
inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of
the answer which I had before given, that for anything I knew the watch might
have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as
well as for the stone? Why is it not as admissible in the second case as in the
first? For this reason, and for no other, namely, that when we come to inspect
the watch, we perceive–what we could not discover in the stone–that its
several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, e.g., that they are so
formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to
point out the hour of the day; that if the different parts had been differently
shaped from what they are, of a different size from what they are, or placed
after any other manner or in any other order than that in which they are
placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or
none which would have answered the use that is now served by it.
To reckon up a few of the plainest of these parts and of
their offices, all tending to one result; we see a cylindrical box containing a
coiled elastic spring, which, by its endeavor to relax itself, turns round the
box. We next observe a flexible chain–artificially wrought for the sake of
flexure–communicating the action of the spring from the box to the fusee. We
then find a series of wheels, the teeth of which catch in and apply to each
other, conducting the motion from the fusee to the balance and from the balance
to the pointer, and at the same time, by the size and shape of those wheels, so
regulating that motion as to terminate in causing an index, by an equable and
measured progression, to pass over a given space in a given time. We take notice
that the wheels are made of brass, in order to keep them from rust; the springs
of steel, no other metal being so elastic; that over the face of the watch
there is placed a glass, a material employed in no other part of the work, but
in the room of which, if there had been any other than a transparent substance,
the hour could not be seen without opening the case.
This mechanism being observed–it requires indeed an
examination of the instrument, and perhaps some previous knowledge of the
subject, to perceive and understand it; but being once, as we have said,
observed and understood–the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch
must have had a maker-that there must have existed, at some time and at some
place or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which
we find it actually to answer…”
Paley then argues that if a watch presumes there is a
watchmaker then the existence of the universe must point to a God, who made the
universe just as the watchmaker made the watch.
Briefly explain and then evaluate this proof for the
existence of God.
Question 4. 4. (TCO 11) Identify and analyze three basic
patterns in indigeneous religions. Use examples from traditional Hawaiian
religion to support your answer.
