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A Concise Introduction to World Religions, Third Edition: Chapter 8

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) Theravada
b) Chan-Zen
c) Pure Land
d) Yogicara

Question 2:


a) The Dharma
b) The Sangha
c) The Buddha
d) The Bodhisattva

Question 3:


a) It is a “merit-making” ritual.
b) Merit transfer is part of it.
c) Priests give alms to the poor.
d) Laypeople give alms to monks.

Question 4:


a) Suffering
b) Soul
c) Impermanence
d) No-self

Question 5:


a) 1935
b) 2000
c) 1965
d) 1975

Question 6:


a) Life stories
b) Warrior stories
c) Birth stories
d) Hero stories

Question 7:


a) Vajrayana
b) Theravada
c) Mahayana
d) Mahavira

Question 8:


a) They are burial mounds.
b) Devotees walk around them in clockwise direction.
c) Monks pour water on them daily for purification.
d) Building them is a merit-making ritual.

Question 9:


a) Enlightened being
b) Enlightened god
c) Worthy one
d) Saint

Question 10:


a) Bhikshus
b) Bhikshunis
c) The Sangha
d) Arhats

Question 11:


a) Thich Nhat Hanh
b) The Dalai Lama
c) Daisetsu T. Suzuki
d) Shaku Soyen

Question 12:


a) Shakyamuni
b) Tathagata
c) Mahamaya
d) Siddhartha

Question 13:


a) Ngo Dinh Diem
b) The Dalai Lama
c) Siddhartha
d) Ashoka

Question 14:


a) Bardo Thodol
b) Bardo Ngawang
c) Bardo Gyaltsen
d) Bardo Chogye

Question 15:


a) Mahavira
b) Mara
c) Maya
d) Mahayana

Question 16:


a) It is a Theravada mantra.
b) It is a Mahayana mantra.
c) It means “O the jewel in the lotus.”
d) It means “Homage to the Lotus Sutra.”

Question 17:


a) Three gems
b) Three baskets
c) Three bodhisattvas
d) Three buddhas

Question 18:


a) Theravada
b) Mahayana
c) Pure Land
d) Zen

Question 19:


a) 15
b) 80
c) 112
d) 32

Question 20:


a) Zen
b) Pure Land
c) Theravada
d) Tibetan