Chapter 4 | Student Practice Quizzes

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World Religions Today - Chapter 4

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Question 1:

Christians hold that Jesus was raised from the dead after a period of ________.
a) 7 days
b) 3 days
c) 40 days
d) 19 days

Question 2:

As of the 2001 Census, the percentage of Canadians who identify as Christian was ________.
a) 72.4 per cent
b) 33.9 per cent
c) 82.1 per cent
d) 27.2 per cent

Question 3:

The United Church of Canada was formed when which groups merged?
a) Anglican, Presbyterian, and Methodist
b) Catholic, Episcopal, and Congregationalist
c) Evangelical Protestant, Methodist, and Baptist
d) Methodist, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians

Question 4:

John Scopes was put on trail in 1925 in the US for ________.
a) publicly calling upon non-Christians to convert
b) teaching evolution in a public school
c) refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance due to its religious content
d) refusing to allow his child to receive education about non-Christian faiths

Question 5:

Joseph, the father of Jesus of Nazareth, was a ________.
a) shepherd
b) rabbi
c) fisherman
d) carpenter

Question 6:

Historically, Jesus was killed by ________.
a) the Jews, for being an enemy of God
b) the Romans, for being an enemy of the state
c) moneylenders, for interfering in business matters
d) the Senate, for declaring himself President

Question 7:

The message of Jesus that most appealed to his followers was that of a God who was ________.
a) righteous
b) all-knowing
c) victorious
d) loving

Question 8:

Mary’s conception of Jesus is considered miraculous because ________.
a) it occurred without Mary engaging in sexual relations
b) because Mary felt no pain during birth
c) because Mary continued to have menstruation during pregnancy
d) it occurred before Mary was wed to Joseph

Question 9:

Martin Luther was prompted to publicly decry the authority of the Church as corrupt after ________.
a) the declaration of papal infallibility
b) the ordination of the first female priest
c) the declaration that one could pay a fine to wipe away one’s sins
d) the separation of Church and state under King Henry the VIII

Question 10:

Which of the following groups are products of the Anabaptist movement of the Reformation?
a) Hutterites
b) Mennonites
c) Amish
d) All of the above.

Question 11:

Many Anabaptist groups moved to Canada because they believed that ________.
a) it would be easier for more members of the movement to immigrate to Canada than to the US
b) Canada unconditionally exempted members of the movement from military service
c) land was relatively cheap in Canada, which would allow communities to obtain more property
d) Canada would play a specific role in the coming of the Messiah

Question 12:

What percentage of Protestant churches in Europe resisted Hitler and the Nazi message?
a) 20 per cent
b) 70 per cent
c) 10 per cent
d) 39 per cent

Question 13:

What model of education replaced the Evangelical Protestant model at universities later in the nineteenth century?
a) The German scientific ideal of scholarship
b) The American Social Gospel ideal of scholarship
c) The Liberal Catholic ideal of scholarship
d) Darwinian theories

Question 14:

The significance of Vatican II was that it ________.
a) modernized Church facilities
b) shored up the Church’s anti-modernist teachings
c) reaffirmed Thomistic theology as the basis of all Catholic teaching
d) expressed a new openness to modern trends and ideas

Question 15:

Which of the four Gospels was most likely written first?
a) Matthew
b) Luke
c) John
d) Mark

Question 16:

Which sacrament was an adaptation of the Jewish blessing of the bread and wine at the Passover meal?
a) Baptism
b) Communion
c) Extreme unction
d) Ordination

Question 17:

When Christianity waged war on Islam during the Middle Ages, the name of that war was ________.
a) the Middle Ages War
b) the Crusades
c) the Medieval War
d) God’s Righteous War

Question 18:

The ruling that Paul won that was decisive for the growth of the Nazarene movement among gentiles was about ________.
a) Church attendance
b) the circumcision of gentiles
c) the apocalypse
d) the bar mitzvah

Question 19:

Which one of the following is characteristic of Augustine’s ‘two cities’?
a) The City of God should dominate over the City of Humanity.
b) The City of Humanity should dominate over the city of God.
c) The City of Humanity and the City of God should work together to transform the world into a Christian one.
d) The emperor always has the final say over the Church.

Question 20:

In Christianity, the highest goal in life is ________.
a) orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy
b) to act in harmony with the will of God through dying and rising with Christ
c) find harmony and balance with the laws of nature
d) learn from history

Question 21:

The Anglican Reformation in England was initiated by ________.
a) the Archbishop of Canterbury, in order to localize church power
b) the Cardinal of London, in order to punish the Church for slighting him
c) Lord Stuart, so that he might appoint clergy to declare him king
d) King Henry the VIII, so that he could get divorced

Question 22:

The Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant reformers at the Council of Trent was to ________.
a) accept those denominations that expressed some allegiance to the Pope
b) reinforce the absolute power of the Pope and make the theology of Aquinas normative for the church
c) adopt Avicenna’s response to the conflict between reason and religion as a way of responding to the threat of modernity
d) declare Martin Luther the Cardinal of Lausanne

Question 23:

An example of the power of nineteenth century rationalism, French astronomer Pierre Laplace announced that ________.
a) ‘God is dead’.
b) Science had ‘stormed the throne of heaven’.
c) He had ‘no need of God’ to explain the world scientifically.
d) Science would never be able to ‘minister to the soul like faith’.

Question 24:

Which of the following is not one of the seven sacraments of the Church?
a) Marriage
b) Penance of Lent
c) Communion
d) Unction

Question 25:

In the medieval world, which of the following was not a commonly held view of the church?
a) The church was God’s gift to this world to help Christians.
b) The church was a caring mother who protected her children.
c) The church was founded by Jesus Christ.
d) The chief clergy of each church manifested the divinity of Christ during Mass.

Question 26:

For Augustine, the City of God ________.
a) was identical to the church
b) is guided by selfless love
c) must come to govern over the City of Humanity
d) must carry out war against the City of Humanity for the sake of God

Question 27:

As Augustine relates it, the turning point in his life which would eventually lead him to Christ was ________.
a) his recognition of the corrupting influence of sex
b) his confrontation as a teenager with the reality of death
c) his growing desire for wisdom in his later teens
d) his understanding of the greed stimulated by material possessions

Question 28:

In Nietzsche’s view ________.
a) God never existed except as a human invention
b) Darwin’s theories had to be rejected
c) modernity and faith in God could be reconciled
d) it is necessary for each person to make a ‘leap of faith’ towards God

Question 29:

Henry Alline was ________.
a) the founder of the Protestant Church in Canada
b) the first Catholic Canadian senator
c) an important architect who contributed to the style of Canadian churches in Ontario and Quebec
d) an important early evangelist and itinerant preacher who led revival meetings across the Maritimes

Question 30:

While Darwin’s theory of evolution challenged the church through the natural sciences, the social sciences ________.
a) suggested that God was in fact the foundation of the social order
b) suggested that humanity had invented gods to make the ways of life of various cultures seem sacred
c) argued that a belief in God was a foundation of the state
d) withdrew from the controversy because religion was outside the disciplinary boundaries of social science

Question 31:

Christians believe that the gravest problem in human life is sin.
a) True
b) False

Question 32:

Most Christians believe that human beings, if they wanted to badly enough, would be capable of obeying the will of God.
a) True
b) False

Question 33:

Christians believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only son of God made incarnate.
a) True
b) False

Question 34:

As of the 2001 Census, Christianity was no longer the majority religion in Canada.
a) True
b) False

Question 35:

The contents of what Christians call the New Testament were not finalized until the late fourth century.
a) True
b) False

Question 36:

The process of industrialization in the nineteenth century resulted in a decrease in the number of churches across the United States.
a) True
b) False

Question 37:

In contrast to other world religions, Christian communities do not tend to form along ethnic and linguistic lines.
a) True
b) False

Question 38:

Modern scholars do not believe that any of the Gospels were written by a single person.
a) True
b) False

Question 39:

Christianity differed from many ancient philosophies because it did not hold the body as a prison and unworthy of association with God.
a) True
b) False

Question 40:

Jesus began preaching the message of repentance after the death of John the Baptist.
a) True
b) False

Question 41:

The Jews had the power to condemn Jesus to death or to save him.
a) True
b) False

Question 42:

Jesus was born Jewish.
a) True
b) False

Question 43:

Christian anti-Jewish sentiment was originally the result of a line of reasoning which claimed that it was the duty of Christians to punish Jews for the death of Jesus.
a) True
b) False

Question 44:

For more than a hundred years after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, pagans were allowed to worship as they chose.
a) True
b) False

Question 45:

Christian monasteries were repositories of knowledge throughout the Dark Ages.
a) True
b) False

Question 46:

Christians who participated in the Crusades were guaranteed forgiveness for their sins and also ensured entry to heaven.
a) True
b) False

Question 47:

After the Crusades, the Church instituted a policy of treating the believers in all three major monotheist faiths (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) equally.
a) True
b) False

Question 48:

The Crusades paved the way for a rediscovery of lost knowledge that galvanized European thought.
a) True
b) False

Question 49:

Anabaptists believe that children should not be baptized at birth.
a) True
b) False

Question 50:

Christians in the churches initiated both the Anglican and Anabaptist movements.
a) True
b) False

Question 51:

In 1925, media coverage of the Scopes Trial made the general public think that fundamentalists were ignorant hillbilly types.
a) True
b) False

Question 52:

The Roman emperor Constantine was the first monarch to champion the rights of Christians.
a) True
b) False

Question 53:

By witnessing the transformation of the Roman Empire from a pagan empire into a Christian empire, Augustine concluded that God intended to use the Roman Empire to spread the Gospel around the world.
a) True
b) False

Question 54:

Hutterites are a sect of Catholics.
a) True
b) False

Question 55:

According to Chinese tradition, the Apostle Thomas brought Christianity to India.
a) True
b) False

Question 56:

The first two Presidents of the modern nation of South Korea were Christian.
a) True
b) False

Question 57:

Canada did not attempt to separate church and state.
a) True
b) False

Question 58:

Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution allowed Christian missionaries new freedoms in China.
a) True
b) False

Question 59:

The first amendment to the US Constitution marks a break from traditional structures of Augustinianism.
a) True
b) False

Question 60:

Today, few question Canada’s status as a Christian nation.
a) True
b) False