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A Concise Introduction to World Religions 2e: Chapter 11

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the 'Submit my answers' button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
b) Tannisho
c) Ojo yoshu
d) All of the above are important for different groups.

Question 2:


a) Susano-o
b) Kitsune
c) Amitaba
d) Amaterasu

Question 3:


a) ‘Om mani padme hum.’
b) ‘Namu myoho renge kyo.’
c) ‘Namu Amida Butsu.’
d) ‘Om Shin rikyo.’

Question 4:


a) an effort to syncretize Buddhist deities into the 'kami' framework to convert the Japanese to Buddhism; later rejected during Meiji period
b) the rise of a distinctive form of Japanese nationalism that sought to harness the power of the 'kami' for expansion and conquest
c) an intra-Buddhist effort to promote cooperation among Japanese Buddhist sects vis-à-vis Shinto ideology
d) Shinto rituals to be performed in the natural places of great power where shrines have been erected

Question 5:


a) Kukai => Shingon
b) Dogen => Soto Zen
c) Saicho => Tendai
d) Jizo => Nichiren school

Question 6:


a) reciprocity
b) teachings concerning the responsibilities of social relationships and the roles between superiors and subordinates.
c) The Mandate of Heaven (and the related right to rebel against a tyrant)
d) ancestor worship

Question 7:


a) good health and fertility
b) financial prosperity and good government
c) individual salvation in the afterlife
d) all of the above

Question 8:


a) Tendai
b) Theravada
c) Shingon
d) Jodo shinshu

Question 9:


a) Kannon
b) Amida
c) Jizo (Ojizo-sama)
d) Shinran

Question 10:


a) Kegon
b) Soka Gakkai
c) Rissho Koseikai
d) Aum Shinrikyo