Title: Chapter 01: Studying World Religions
Course: World Religions, 2e

Q: What term was commonly used for ancient Western religious traditions that were polytheistic?
- pagan
- dualist
- gnostic
- animistic
- rural
A: pagan

Q: Documents that deal with the collapse and end of the world order are called:
- apocryphal.
- anonymous.
- Augustinian.
- antinomian.
- apocalyptic.
A: apocalyptic.

Q: What does the abbreviation BCE stand for?
- before the Christian Empire
- before Constantine’s Empire
- before the common era
- before the Catholic era
- before Christian Europe
A: before the common era

Q: What is a mound or hill formed by a settlement over many centuries of occupation?
- tel
- dig
- strata
- ziggurat
- stele
A: tel

Q: What term is used to identify the authoritative texts of a religious tradition?
- Bible
- canon
- Testament
- tome
- prophecy
A: canon

Q: What is the most specific term for a defender of the beliefs and practices of a religion?
- clergy
- apologist
- shaman
- theologian
- prophet
A: apologist

Q: What term identifies the ritual for expelling evil forces from people, objects, or places?
- exorcism
- eschatology
- Eucharist
- exegesis
- ecstasy
A: exorcism

Q: What is the essential characteristic of a religious myth?
- false story
- mystical story
- ancient story
- foundational story
- stories involving both gods and humans
A: foundational story

Q: What term identifies the correct and essential core beliefs of a religion?
- heretical
- canonical
- prophetic
- apocryphal
- orthodox
A: orthodox

Q: What term is used for the full assembly of the divine figures of a polytheistic religious tradition?
- pantheon
- the heavens
- the primal council
- Olympus
- boule
A: pantheon

Q: What is a rosary?
- prayer beads
- sacrifice
- small chapel
- amulet
- temple decorations
A: prayer beads

Q: What term identifies beliefs that are judged by a tradition to be unacceptable and damaging?
- noncanonical
- homily
- mythical
- heresy
- apocryphal
A: heresy

Q: What is a convert from one religion to another called?
- neophyte
- acolyte
- proselyte
- pagan
- laity
A: proselyte

Q: Apocalyptic texts primarily are marked by:
- speculation about the nature of God.
- speculation about the end of the world.
- speculation about origins.
- speculation about temple ritual.
- regulation of ethics.
A: speculation about the end of the world.

Q: Which belief affirms one deity without denying the existence of others?
- monotheism
- polytheism
- henotheism
- pantheism
- deism
A: henotheism

Q: What term describes gods and goddesses who are portrayed as having human characteristics?
- demigods
- legendary
- humanoid
- demons
- anthropomorphic
A: anthropomorphic

Q: What term is applied to individuals who have rejected the belief system to which they had once been committed?
- traitor
- pagan
- proselyte
- ascetic
- apostate
A: apostate

Q: To which pair is the term dualism most appropriately applied?
- clergy and laity
- priests and monastics
- primal powers of good and evil
- realms of heaven and hell
- human and divine beings
A: primal powers of good and evil

Q: What is an individual called who is opposed to the use of religious images?
- heretic
- iconoclast
- ascetic
- idolater
- byzantine
A: iconoclast

Q: What method of interpretation allows for the reading of figurative or symbolic ideas from the literal presentation of stories in a text?
- allegorical
- exegetical
- mystical
- comparative
- reverse
A: allegorical

Q: What element is not normally featured in Western eschatological thinking?
- end of the world
- final judgment
- reincarnation
- resurrection of the dead
- age of peace
A: reincarnation

Q: What is the term for the belief that spirits inhabit inanimate objects?
- animism
- shamanism
- possession
- pantheism
- exorcism
A: animism

Q: What is the term for a journey to a sacred religious site, done as a devotional act?
- ascension
- relic
- novella
- crusade
- pilgrimage
A: pilgrimage

Q: What does “to profane” imply?
- swearing
- violation of a sacred object or space
- sinning
- apostatizing
- prophesying
A: violation of a sacred object or space

Q: What does the abbreviation AD stand for in dating schemes?
- after death (the death of Jesus)
- after the diaspora
- anno domini
- alternative dating
- age of the disciples
A: anno domini

Q: What is the general term for an object that a person might carry because of it perceived protective powers?
- amulet
- hex
- shaman
- relic
- novella
A: amulet

Q: What term identifies things that are associated with the domain of the gods?
- sacrificial
- profane
- sacred
- orthodox
- canonical
A: sacred