Question 1

Roman Catholicism is prevalent in eastern Europe,including Romania.

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A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

Most people in the Republic of Ireland are adherents of which branch of Christianity?
A slight majority of people in Northern Ireland are adherents of which branch of Christianity?

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Question 3

Mahayanists,in contrast to Theravadists,emphasize Buddha's

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A)   life of self-help.
B)   compassion.
C)   renouncing of worldly goods.
D)   wisdom.
E)   practice of meditation.

Question 4

Much of the conflict in Northern Ireland today is an indirect result of

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A)   the physical geography of the island creating a division.
B)   Irish Catholics migrating northward into the territory.
C)   the Norman invasion of 1066.
D)   migration from southern Europe and north Africa.
E)   the English colonization of Ireland.

Question 5

Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than a universalizing religion,primarily because

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A)   its main holidays relate to events in the life of its founder, Abraham.
B)   it uses a lunar calendar.
C)   its rituals derive from the agricultural cycle in Israel.
D)   it commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.
E)   the holy text is the foundation of the religion.

Question 6

Figure 6.8.3 
-Palestinians include all but which of the following groups?

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A)   residents of refugee camps surrounding Israel
B)   residents of territories occupied by Israel
C)   citizens of other states calling themselves Palestinians
D)   Jewish citizens of Israel
E)   Muslim citizens of Israel

Question 7

Which is not an ethnic Asian religion?

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A)   Buddhism
B)   Confucianism
C)   Shintoism
D)   Daoism
E)   Hinduism

Question 8

A large and fundamental division within a religion is a

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A)   branch.
B)   denomination.
C)   sect.
D)   dialect.
E)   family. A

Question 9

Baptists are clustered in the ________ United States.

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A)   northeastern
B)   southeastern
C)   southwestern
D)   upper midwestern
E)   Baptists are not spatially clustered.

Question 10

What is the holiest book in Hinduism?

Accepted Answer

A)   the Bible
B)   the Old Testament
C)   the Quran
D)   the Amrit
E)   none of these answers are correct.

Question 11

Of the following religious branches,which one has a single living authority who speaks for the entire branch?

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A)   Eastern Orthodoxy
B)   Theravada Buddhism
C)   Shaktism
D)   Roman Catholicism
E)   Protestantism

Question 12

An ethnic religion is

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A)   based on only one language.
B)   appealing mostly to one group of people in one place.
C)   based on belief in one particular spiritual leader.
D)   younger than a universalizing religion.

Question 13

How do different religions incorporate natural features into their cosmogony?

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Question 14

Which is a branch of Christianity?

Accepted Answer

A)   Druze
B)   Eastern Orthodox
C)   Shiite
D)   Theravadist
E)   Judaism

Question 15

What is the world's largest ethnic religion? In what country do 97 percent of the adherents of this religion live?

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Question 16

Figure 6.8.3 
-The territory of Israel has generally ________ since its formation in 1947.

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A)   grown
B)   shrunk
C)   remained constant
D)   grown, with the exception of the Sinai Peninsula,
E)   shrunk, with the exception of the Gaza Strip,

Question 17

Israel has controlled all of Jerusalem since

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A)   partition of Palestine by the United Nations in 1947.
B)   the withdrawal of British rule in 1948.
C)   the Arab-Israeli armistice of 1949.
D)   the Six-Day War in 1967.
E)   the Egyptian and Israeli peace treaty of 1979.

Question 18

Cremation is more important than burial in which religion?

Accepted Answer

A)   Buddhism
B)   Christianity
C)   Hinduism
D)   Islam
E)   Judaism C

Question 19

Jerusalem's geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve because

Accepted Answer

A)   sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are literally built one on top the other.
B)   the population of Jerusalem is majority Christian but surrounded by majority Jewish and Muslim populations on either side.
C)   the Israeli government has separated the most sacred sites with a massive concrete wall.
D)   Israel captured the Sinai peninsula from Egypt.
E)   Jews and Muslims have never co-existed peacefully.

Question 20

Like churches,mosques are consecrated as holy places.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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