Title: Chapter 06: Asia
Course: An Introduction to Christianity on Five Continents

Q: Who is widely believed to have been the first evangelist in India?
- Peter
- Paul
- Thomas
- Titus
A: Thomas

Q: In 1715, Pope Clement hastened the third withering of Asian Christianity when he
- forbade Christian participation in rituals honoring ancestors
- approved military action against the Chinese emperor
- ordered Jesuits to withdraw from most of Asia
- all of the above (a, b, c) were contributing factors
A: forbade Christian participation in rituals honoring ancestors

Q: Which of four major tasks of William Carey’s mission was the least successful?
- evangelism
- translation of the Bible
- education
- social justice
A: evangelism

Q: What commodity was most closely associated with the movement of missionaries into China?
- corn
- pork
- gold
- opium
A: opium

Q: What is the name of the Jesus-related movement that came close to taking control of all China in the mid-nineteenth century?
- Unification Church
- Eastern Lightning
- Taiping Movement
- Cultural Revolution
A: Taiping Movement

Q: Which kind of Christian churches are the most common in China today?
- Orthodox
- Traditional Protestant
- Catholic
- Pentecostal
A: Pentecostal

Q: Which two nations in Islamic West Asia have populations that are not majority Muslim?
- Georgia and Armenia
- Bahrain and Kuwait
- Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Jordan and Lebanon
A: Georgia and Armenia

Q: Which nation in religiously-mixed southeast Asia has the largest number of Christians?
- South Korea
- Vietnam
- the Philippines
- Malaysia
A: the Philippines

Q: According to recent global surveys, Christians in Asia are
- more likely to be persecuted than Christians living elsewhere
- less likely to be persecuted than Christians living elsewhere
- likely to be persecuted only if they are members of a minority group
- more likely to persecute others than to be persecuted themselves
A: more likely to be persecuted than Christians living elsewhere

Q: Most Hindus consider ____ to be evil.
- other religions
- military interventions
- religious conversion
- alcoholic beverages
A: religious conversion

Q: What Korean word refers to the pain and resentment felt by those who suffer?
- karma
- han
- dinara
- yang
A: han

Q: Which place, in the year 301, became the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion?
- Italy
- Greece
- Armenia
- Turkey
A: Armenia

Q: What is the meaning of the word Dalit?
- crushed and broken
- high and mighty
- meek and lowly
- loyal and honest
A: crushed and broken

Q: What was the predominant religion of the Persian Empire?
- Christianity
- Islam
- Manicheism
- Zoroastrianism
A: Zoroastrianism

Q: Which of the following is not a Miaphysite church?
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Syrian Orthodox Church
- Coptic Orthodox Church
- Church of the East
A: Church of the East

Q: Alopen, the Christian missionary to China, adopted which two Buddhist strategies?
- building monasteries and writing sutras
- planting wheat and fencing in pigs
- killing opium plants and building separating housing for women
- making interest-free loans to converts and banishing heretics
A: building monasteries and writing sutras

Q: The most significant factor in Christianity’s first Asian recession (650–1100) was the
- increasing influence of Buddhism
- widespread plague and famine
- rise of Islam
- ruthless actions of Christian missionaries
A: rise of Islam

Q: What was the outcome of the First Crusade to the Holy Land, launched in 1095?
- The Crusaders made it nearly to Constantinople but were then defeated.
- The Crusaders were victorious and temporarily recaptured most of the Holy Land.
- The Crusaders negotiated a treaty that peacefully transferred the Holy Land to them.
- The Crusaders split into two groups that nearly destroyed each other.
A: The Crusaders were victorious and temporarily recaptured most of the Holy Land.

Q: The fourth flourishing of Christianity in Asia began in 1498 when a delegation from which European country arrived in India?
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- England
A: Portugal

Q: The Jesuits, founded in 1534, were an order devoted primarily to
- evangelism
- healing (medicine)
- teaching
- military action
A: teaching