World Religions 9 Weeks Test

Which branch of Buddhism held arhats to be the spiritual ideal?

Which branch of Buddhism is known as the "diamond vehicle?"

Which Hindu deity is associated with preservation of life in the universe?

What is the word that the term 'animism' comes from?

In Hawaiian culture, what are the brothers Kane and Kanaloa credited with planting?

Which animal was it that Gitksan shaman Isaac Tens encountered in the woods?

When a single kami is worshiped at more than one shrine, is their power diminished?

What was the name of the first Greek primordial deity?

Which mythology involved the ka and ba as two parts of the soul?

What is the point when rebirth ends in Buddhist thought?

Nakayama Miki founded which religion?

What is the name of the trinity of masculine Hindu gods?

Which of these serve to maintain order and give guidelines for how to live a happy life?

In Norse mythology, which group of people were immune to sacrifice?

What was Yggdrasil?

Which religion was Shinto frequently in competition with?

What are the oldest Hindu sacred scriptures known as?

Which yoga involves unselfish and useful work as a way of achieving perfection?

The Kojiki is a sacred text in which religion?

Which of these was NOT one of the Tripitakas?

Which of these is where average souls went in the Greek afterlife?

"Maya" refers to the everyday world and is translated as...

Who declared that they were also kami?

What was the name of the Maya underworld?

Which mythology practiced ritual expulsion during a time of hardship?

Which of these is NOT a pattern in indigenous religions?

Which of these is NOT one of the Three Marks of Reality?

What do most indigenous religions use in place of a formal moral code?

Which of these is NOT a function of rituals?

Do practitioners of Shinto practice animal sacrifice?

Which of these serves to tell the history and origin of a religion?

Which indigenous culture revered Uluru as a sacred site?

Which mountain is sacred to Buddhists, Jains, and Hindus?

Who was the Indian emperor who publicly supported Buddhism and sent missionaries throughout India?

Which indigenous culture lived in multistory cliff-dwellings?

Which indigenous culture believed in the Dreamtime?

Which of these is NOT a common feature of religion?

In Maya myth, what were humans successfully created out of?

In which culture was the name of a dead person never uttered again?

Which type of totemism is usually connected with a leader or socially significant person?

In Norse mythology, which realm do humans live in?

Which of these is NOT an item that was frequently used to represent the kami at the shrines?

What was the name of the spirits that are worshiped and revered in Shinto?

Which number was sacred to many of the Pueblo peoples?

Which type of totemism is hereditary?

Which of these precepts is only ever practiced by monks?

What is the cosmic power that is present in all reality, according to Hinduism?

Which indigenous culture reveres the fire goddess Pele?

Which of these was NOT one of the Olympians?

Which yoga involves meditation?

What did the Maori call New Zealand?

If a passage is written in the form of poetry, which Daoist text did it most likely come from?

Which of these was NOT one of the Egyptian sacred texts?

Which indigenous culture lived in Africa?

Which Hindu epic does the Bhagavad Gita come from?

Which of these is NOT part of the Noble Eightfold Path?

Which indigenous culture practiced the Haka dance?

What did the Maya say was the source of a person's illness?

Which yoga involves studying sacred texts and learning from teachers who have achieved insight?

Which branch of Buddhism spread into China and Japan and influenced the religions there?

What is the name of the founder of Daoism?

Practitioners of indigenous religions tend to see time as...

Which branch of Buddhism believed in the Trikaya Doctrine?

Which yoga involves expressions of religious devotion?

Which of these was NOT one of the Four Passing Sights?