SURVEY OF RELIGION & CULTS
EXAM # 1
Student’s Edition
Place the letter for the ‘best’ answer to each of these short descriptions.
You may use an answer more than once.
1. ACUPUNCTURE
2. 1 OF CHINA’S 3 MAIN RELIGIONS (other than Buddhism & Confucianism)
3. MOST ARE IN INDIA, AND ARE KNOWN AS ‘PARSIS’
4. KNOWN AS THE ‘GOOD RELIGION’
5. CH’I (personal energy balance)
6. THE WORLD IS GOVERNED BY A ‘FORCE’
7. DEAD BODIES PLACED IN ‘DAKHMAS’
8. YIN-YANG
9. SPIRITUAL, MILITANT, MAJOR PARTY IN IRAN/IRAQ
10. WEAR MOUTH COVERS SO THEY WON’T SWALLOW A FLY
11. MUHAMMAD
12. 6 MILLION ADHERENTS (just need any of the 3 possible answers for this)
13. THEME IS THE ONENESS OF GOD, RELIGION, & HUMANS
14. TIBETAN, THERAVADA, ZEN
15. 90% OF THE MUSLIM WORLD; TRADITIONAL; POLITICAL
16. 80% OF THE JAPANESE ARE ADHERENTS
17. BEING LOYAL TO ONE’S ANCESTORS
18. BHAGAVAD GITA
19. KAMI (Spirits)
20. 100,000 SHRINES
21. COMBINATION OF ISLAM + HINDUISM
22. BRAHMAN, MOKSHA, & NIRVANA
23. LONG HAIR, COMB, SHORTS, & DAGGER
24. GURUS
25. THE WAY OF THE SPIRITS
26. NATURE IS SACRED + PHYSICAL CLEANLINESS
27. INDONESIA, PAKISTAN, & INDIA (Top 3 countries)
28. MILLIONS OF GODS
29. YOGA
30. 2ND OLDEST RELIGION; 3RD LARGEST RELIGION
31. AN OFFSHOOT OF SHI’ITE ISLAM
32. THE CONCEPT OF ‘JEN’ (love)
33. MEETINGS EVERY 19 DAYS; NO MINISTERS
34. 5TH LARGEST RELIGION, 25 MILLION ADHERENTS
35. GOAL IS ‘HAPPINESS FOR HUMANKIND’; NO WAR
36. HEADQUARTERS IN HAIFA, ISRAEL
37. 4 NOBLE TRUTHS; 8 FOLD PATH OUT OF SUFFERING
38. TANAKH; TALMUD; MISHNA; GEMARA
39. SOME WEAR DARK GRAY SUITS AND ‘SKULLCAPS’
40. MAIMONIDES
41. QUR’AN
42. SHARIA LAW
43. THE ‘MOON GOD’
44. THE FASTEST GROWING RELIGION IN THE WORLD
45. TO STOP SUFFERING ONE MUST STOP DESIRING