Title: Chapter 08: Jainism
Course: World Religions, 2e

Q: How does Jainism view the world system?
- dualistic (good and evil)
- triple layers
- ten layers of rebirth
- dualistic (gods and humans)
- illusionary: one god is real
A: triple layers

Q: Who was the first of the Jain “ford-makers”?
- Mahavira
- Parshva
- Bahubali
- Maskariputra
- Rishabha
A: Rishabha

Q: Where do most Jains live?
- China
- Tibet
- India
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka
A: India

Q: What is not one of the five main precepts (Mahavratas) of Jainism?
- noninjury
- truthfulness
- silence
- not stealing
- nonattachment
A: silence

Q: What is not one of the six daily obligations of a Jain?
- reading the canonical texts
- standing motionless in mediation
- reciting a hymn of praise to the Tirthankaras
- repenting
- renouncing prohibited acts
A: reading the canonical texts

Q: What action is not part of Jain worship?
- walking around the image
- clothing the image
- bathing the image
- offering food to the image
- anointing the image
A: clothing the image

Q: What is the ideal death for a Jain?
- death on temple grounds
- death in battle
- death by drinking hemlock
- death on a funeral pyre
- fasting until death
A: fasting until death

Q: What is the primary food taboo for Jains?
- beef
- pork
- intoxicants
- meat
- shellfish
A: meat

Q: What is not an object or action in the initiation ceremony of a Jain monk?
- broom
- begging bowl
- water pot
- hair removal
- new name
A: begging bowl

Q: What religion is thought to have first used the story of the blind men and the elephant as an illustration of an incomplete human grasp of truth?
- Jain
- Buddhist
- Hindu
- Sikh
- Confucian
A: Jain

Q: What does the Jain use of the svastika system convey?
- racial purity
- liberation
- prohibited actions
- Aryan roots of Jain civilization
- cycles of rebirth
A: cycles of rebirth

Q: According to Jains, of what does the material world consist?
- spiritual and physical
- the eternal and the temporary
- good and evil
- fire, earth, and air
- souls and nonsouls
A: souls and nonsouls

Q: What item is not part of the symbol of Jainism?
- flame
- hand
- wheel
- svastika
- three dots (jewels)
A: flame

Q: What is the color of the clothing worn by a Jain monk?
- blue
- black
- white
- yellow
- orange
A: white

Q: After attaining nirvana, by what term was the last great Jain teacher known?
- the Enlightened One
- the Last Prince
- the Revealer
- the Conqueror
- the Eternal
A: the Conqueror

Q: What term is used for the great Jain teachers?
- Tirthankaras
- Digambaras
- Bodhisattvas
- Shvetambaras
- Mahavratas
A: Tirthankaras

Q: What action does the term sallekhana identify?
- noninjury
- naked monasticism
- the annual monastic retreat
- female Jain ascetics
- a death fast
A: a death fast

Q: What are the Three Jewels of Jainism?
- dharma, moksha, kama
- laity, monks, and nuns
- right faith, right knowledge, right conduct
- birth, liberation, death
- fasting, charity, celibacy
A: right faith, right knowledge, right conduct

Q: How is the Jain view of karma different from other eastern views of karma?
- karma is moral
- karma is illusionary
- karma is arbitrary
- karma is material
- karma is mental
A: karma is material

Q: What texts were composed in the Ardhamagadhi language?
- Buddhist
- Jain
- Hindu
- Sikh
- Sunni
A: Jain

Q: What does the term Jain mean?
- Conquerer
- follower of the Conqueror
- ford-crosser
- enlightened
- hearer
A: follower of the Conqueror

Q: What is the primary emphasis of Jainism?
- noninjury
- forgiveness
- celibacy
- study of the Vedas
- charity
A: noninjury

Q: What kind of lifestyle did the founder of Jainism preach?
- moderate asceticism
- intense meditation
- extreme asceticism
- occasional meditation
- freedom from restraints
A: extreme asceticism

Q: What does the term ahimsa mean?
- nonsoul
- coloring
- self
- liberated
- nonviolence
A: nonviolence

Q: What is the Ishatpragbhara?
- one of the Jain monastic groups
- one of the great Jain heroes
- the Jain abode of the liberated
- the canon of the Jains
- a festival of the Jains
A: the Jain abode of the liberated

Q: What is the phrase on the Jain symbol?
- “You are that.”
- “Do unto others.”
- “All actions are binding.”
- “Living beings render service to one another.”
- “All paths lead to God.”
A: “Living beings render service to one another.”

Q: What is the Agamas?
- Jain scripture
- Jain monastic group
- Jain festival
- Jain monastery
- ancient Jain heroes
A: Jain scripture

Q: What do Jains says about their oldest texts?
- they are lost but translations exist
- they were copied largely from the Vedas
- they were largely copied from Buddhist texts
- they were copied by Buddhist texts
- they were lost long ago
A: they were lost long ago

Q: When did the Jain canon reach its final form?
- during the lifetime of its founder
- one thousand years after the death of its founder
- within a decade of the death of its founder
- within a century of the death of its founder
- at the death of its founder
A: one thousand years after the death of its founder

Q: How do the Jains view history?
- spiral upward
- spiral downward
- linear, approaching the end
- illusionary
- cycles of renewal and degeneration
A: cycles of renewal and degeneration

Q: What do the Jains celebrate on the Hindu festival of Divali?
- Mahavira’s birth
- Mahavira’s liberation
- the creation of the cosmos
- the founding of the community
- the meeting of the first council
A: Mahavira’s liberation

Q: What is the most distinctive behavior of the Digambaras?
- they are vegetarians
- they practice nudity
- they are celibate
- they wear a white robe
- they wear a yellow/orange robe
A: they practice nudity

Q: How many great teachers are recognized by Jains?
- 24
- 12
- 5
- 20
- 10
A: 24

Q: Many of the stories about the last great Jain teacher share parallels with stories about what other teacher?
- Jesus
- Confucius
- Maskariputra
- the Buddha
- the Dalai Lama
A: the Buddha

Q: In what period is Mahavira most likely to have lived?
- 1500 BCE
- 500s BCE
- 200 BCE
- 500 CE
- 1500 CE
A: 500s BCE