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Question 1:

The single most important concept in Chinese and Korean religions ________.
a) a strong God
b) multiple gods and goddesses
c) textual sources
d) harmony

Question 2:

The highest god during the Shang dynasty was ________.
a) Laozi
b) Shangdi
c) Kongzi
d) Xiangong

Question 3:

Kongzi’s notion of rites, or ________, included rules of social etiquette in addition to religious rites.
a) ren
b) de
c) li
d) yi

Question 4:

The two branches of the Daoist tradition are ________.
a) alchemical and natural
b) primitivist and urbanist
c) religious and philosophical
d) inner and outer

Question 5:

Syncretist Daoists are those who combine ________.
a) the teachings of Laozi and Zhuangzi
b) Buddhism and Daoism
c) Confucianism and Daoism
d) the teachings of Menzi and Bodhidharma

Question 6:

Zhuangzi disagreed with Laozi’s notion of non-action, preferring ________.
a) wuwei
b) meditation
c) ren
d) spontaneity

Question 7:

Mohism advocated for ________.
a) sitting meditation
b) education
c) undifferentiated love
d) going with the flow

Question 8:

The books on which Kongzi based his Confucian thinking were ________.
a) The Songs of the South
b) The Rites
c) The Five Classics
d) Admonitions for Women

Question 9:

Empresses in ancient China ________.
a) were to be seen but not heard from
b) played an integral, yet indirect role in guiding the emperor
c) we cloistered and hidden away from society
d) ruled equally, in conjunction with their husbands

Question 10:

A rebellion by the ________ was crushed by the Han dynasty, obliterating the group.
a) Yellow Kerchiefs
b) Linji sect
c) Zhoists
d) Red Dragons

Question 11:

During the Six Dynasties era, the main differences between the northern and southern developments of Buddhism were ________.
a) meditation and chanting, respectively
b) political ambitions and magical practices, respectively
c) magical practices and meditation, respectively
d) chanting and political ambitions, respectively

Question 12:

Hui Yuan’s reason for why monastics should not have to bow to the emperor was that ________.
a) monks and nuns are morally superior
b) in a world of non-duality everything is the same
c) the monastics have more popular support
d) the monastics had renounced the world

Question 13:

Mofa is ________.
a) a Daoist reformer
b) the Correct Law
c) a divination practice
d) the end times

Question 14:

Religious Daoists used alchemy to ________.
a) change metal into gold
b) transform herbs into medicines
c) achieve longevity and immortality
d) contact the deities and spirits

Question 15:

During the Tang dynasty numerous district temples were built for ________.
a) Confucian officials to conduct four new types of rites
b) Buddhist monks to increase space for meditation practices
c) religious Daoist worship of the Eight Immortals
d) the emperor’s family to foster folk traditions

Question 16:

Daoism became the state religion of China during the ________.
a) Han dynasty
b) Tang dynasty
c) Zhou dynasty
d) Shang dynasty

Question 17:

Zhu Xi is a Neo-Confucian reformer who held that ________ was the basis of all self-cultivation.
a) honesty
b) education
c) hard work
d) self-love

Question 18:

The Qing emperor sent a letter to Queen Victoria concerning ________.
a) Christian missionaries
b) the tea trade
c) opium
d) educational exchanges

Question 19:

Two of the three mythical Korean kings who founded the Three Kingdoms were ________.
a) born of a goddess
b) delivered by a dragon
c) found in a well
d) born of an egg

Question 20:

Today, Korea has the largest network of ________ shrines in the world.
a) Buddhism
b) Confucian
c) Daoist
d) Christian

Higher Education

World Religions: Eastern Traditions, Fourth Edition—Chapter 6