World Religions 9 Weeks Test

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

Which mythology practiced ritual expulsion during a time of hardship?

What are the oldest Hindu sacred scriptures known as?

Nakayama Miki founded which religion?

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

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

Which indigenous culture lived in Africa?

What did the Maori call New Zealand?

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

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

Which of these was NOT one of the Tripitakas?

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

Which yoga involves meditation?

What was the name of the first Greek primordial deity?

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

Do practitioners of Shinto practice animal sacrifice?

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

Which of these precepts is only ever practiced by monks?

Which of these was NOT one of the Olympians?

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

Which yoga involves expressions of religious devotion?

Which indigenous culture revered Uluru as a sacred site?

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

Which number was sacred to many of the Pueblo peoples?

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

What was the name of the Maya underworld?

Which indigenous culture practiced the Haka dance?

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

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

Which of these is NOT a pattern in indigenous religions?

Which religion was Shinto frequently in competition with?

What was Yggdrasil?

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

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

In Norse mythology, which realm do humans live in?

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

Which branch of Buddhism believed in the Trikaya Doctrine?

The Kojiki is a sacred text in which religion?

Which indigenous culture lived in multistory cliff-dwellings?

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

Which indigenous culture reveres the fire goddess Pele?

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

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

Which type of totemism is hereditary?

Which Hindu epic does the Bhagavad Gita come from?

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

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

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

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

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

What is the name of the founder of Daoism?

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

What is the point when rebirth ends in Buddhist thought?

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

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

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

Who declared that they were also kami?

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

Which of these is NOT a common feature of religion?

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

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

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

Which of these is NOT a function of rituals?

Which indigenous culture believed in the Dreamtime?

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