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Oxtoby Eastern, Third Edition: Chapter 8

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Question 1:


a) An earthquake in Sumatra
b) Iran’s Islamic Revolution
c) Vatican IV
d) Daoist militancy

Question 2:


a) Mujahidin
b) Islamic Socialist Group
c) Fatwa fighters
d) Afghan assassins

Question 3:


a) Sharia law
b) Secularism
c) Jaina political dharma
d) Hindu nationalism

Question 4:


a) Christians
b) shamen
c) Daoists
d) Tibetan Buddhists

Question 5:


a) secularists
b) liberals
c) ultraconservatives
d) syncretists

Question 6:


a) condemn
b) consider a major sin to be
c) accept
d) support

Question 7:


a) the dowry system
b) an increase in female followers
c) the lack of religious restriction
d) an increased level of higher education

Question 8:


a) life and death
b) cows and people
c) humans and animals
d) nature and society

Question 9:


a) euthanasia
b) sex addiction
c) warrior culture
d) environmental issues

Question 10:


a) Buddhist economics
b) Hindu ethics
c) Daoist minimalism
d) Confucian etiquette

Question 11:


a) polygamy
b) male cross-dressers
c) a notion of Satan
d) environmental devastation

Question 12:


a) Afghanistan
b) Bengal
c) Turfan
d) India

Question 13:


a) Bodhidharma
b) King Ashoka
c) Buddhasena
d) King Milinda

Question 14:


a) immortality
b) the Jade Emperor
c) magic and healing
d) sexual yogas

Question 15:


a) Jaina
b) Shamanic
c) Daoists
d) Buddhist

Question 16:


a) include
b) exclude
c) limit
d) enhance

Question 17:


a) downplays
b) enhances
c) emphasizes
d) exaggerates

Question 18:


a) intolerant
b) tolerant
c) persecutory
d) missionary

Question 19:


a) were eternally separate
b) accepted the Qur’an
c) worshipped the same god
d) shared devotional spirituality

Question 20:


a) Vedanta
b) Shinto
c) neo-Confucianism
d) Sikhism

Question 21:


a) Tendai
b) Zen
c) Pure Land
d) Dalai Lama’s

Question 22:


a) waiting for conversion
b) praying for salvation
c) Satan’s minions
d) anonymous Christians

Question 23:


a) conversion
b) missionary training
c) submission
d) understanding

Question 24:


a) convert
b) brainwash
c) sever ties with
d) bring along their

Question 25:


a) eminently valuable
b) under attack
c) incompatible
d) constitutionally guaranteed