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,Chapter 1: Thinking about ReligionThe questions in this test bank have been updated and revised to reflect changes in THINK World
Religions, 2nd edition. There is also a new system for identifying the difficulty of the questions.
In this revision, the questions are now tagged according to the four levels of learning that help
organize the text. Think of these four levels as moving from lower-level to higher-level cognitive
reasoning. The four levels are:
REMEMBER: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material
UNDERSTAND: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas
APPLY: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation
ANALYZE: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their
interrelationship
The 45 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into five types of questions. As the table
below shows, more than half of these questions are “Remember” questions and most questions
fall within the lowest three levels of cognitive reasoning(Remember, Understand, and Apply).
Multiple Choice, True/False, Fill in the Blank, and Matching questions span the broadest
range of skills (the majority are “Remember” questions and the remainder are “Understand”
questions). Short Answer questions span a broad range of skills(from “Remember” to
“Analyze”). Finally, Essay questions are the most demanding because they include the highest
levels of cognitive reasoning(from “Understand” to “Analyze”).
Types of Questions
Easy to Difficult Level of Difficulty
Fill in
Multiple the Short Total
Choice True/False Blank Matching Answer Essay Questions
Remember 10 6 5 5 2 0 28
Understand 5 4 0 0 1 2 12
Apply 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Analyze 0 0 0 0 1 2 4
Totals 15 10 5 5 5 5 45
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following controversies is used by your textbook author to illustrate the
relationship between religion and politics?
A. Barack Obama as a secret Muslim
B. Bill Clinton and Whitewater
C. Sarah Palin and Jesse Jackson
D. Saddam Hussein and George Bush
(UNDERSTAND; Answer: A; page 1)
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,2. Which of the following is one of the fundamental questions asked by scholars Otto and
Müller?
A. What happens after death?
B. What is the result of sin?
C. What is religion?
D. Why do bad things happen to good people?
(REMEMBER;Answer: C; page 4)
3. Rudolf Otto believed that all religions interacted with the holy. Which of the following best
describes what Otto meant by “the holy”?
A. Something useful for accomplishing worthy goals
B. Something ultimately good which interacts and transcends everyday life
C. Something mundane and ordinary
D. Something defying all expression and comprehension
(UNDERSTAND;Answer: b; page 4)
4. Karl Marx is famous for saying __________.
A. God is dead
B. if there were no God anything would be permissible
C. if there were no God we would have to invent one
D. religion is the opiate of the masses
(REMEMBER; Answer: D; page 4)
5. Of the following, who viewed religion skeptically?
A. Rudolf Otto
B. Max Müller
C. Friedrich Nietzsche
D. Thomas Aquinas
(REMEMBER; Answer: C; page 4)
6. Durkheim was interested in the ways in which religion created and maintained __________.
A. illusion
B. introspection
C. cohesive communities
D. desires
(REMEMBER; Answer: C; page 4)
7. Eliade argued religion balanced the profane and the sacred. What does “profane” mean?
A. True
B. Ordinary
C. Transcendent
D. Spiritual
(UNDERSTAND; Answer: B; page 4)
8. The idea that a dominant religion has simply been a successful “master narrative” is an
argument made by __________ scholars.
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, A. Marxist
B. Conservative
C. 19th-century
D. Postmodern
(REMEMBER; Answer: D; pages 4-5)
9. Which of the following is NOT one of the four questions your textbook author will ask of
each religion?
A. What is essential?
B. What does it mean to be human?
C. How do we understand evil?
D. How do humans interact with the sacred?
(REMEMBER; Answer: C; pages 5-6)
10. Your textbook suggests that those who see humanity as fascinated by the young and
childlike, might like __________.
A. Cartman
B. Freud
C. Hello Kitty
D. Pokemon
(REMEMBER; Answer: C; page 6)
11. Your textbook author uses the example of __________ to support the claim that religions
often resort to violence.
A. animal sacrifice in Judaism
B. animal sacrifice if Hinduism
C. crucifixion of Jesus in Christianity
D. radical terrorism in contemporary Islam
(REMEMBER; Answer: D; page 7)
12. Some religions are very active, while others are inactive. These opposites were used by your
textbook author to explain the question __________.
A. “What is essential?”
B. “What does it mean to be human?”
C. “How do humans interact with the sacred?”
D. “How does the sacred become community?”
(UNDERSTAND; Answer: C; page 7)
13. A verbal communion using some form of language is __________.
A. ritual
B. argument
C. conversation
D. prayer
(UNDERSTAND; Answer: D; page 6)
14. Robson suggests you study the religions of the world using a __________.
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