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A Concise Introduction to World Religions, Third Edition: Chapter 3

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) A ritual circumciser
b) A type of oil lame
c) A teacher
d) A covenant

Question 2:


a) 515 BCE
b) 535 BCE
c) 586 BCE
d) 70 CE

Question 3:


a) 1947
b) 1948
c) 1945
d) 1949

Question 4:


a) The Festival of Booths
b) The Festival of the Giving of Torah
c) The Festival of Lights
d) The Festival of Weeks

Question 5:


a) The Shema
b) The Sefirot
c) Deuteronomy
d) The Decalogue

Question 6:


a) Anointed one
b) God
c) Prophet
d) The line of David

Question 7:


a) Mishnah
b) Midrash
c) Tanakh
d) Pentateuch

Question 8:


a) Liberal Judaism
b) Reform Judaism
c) Conservative Judaism
d) Reconstructionist Judaism

Question 9:


a) Rabbis
b) Pharisees
c) Essenes
d) Priests

Question 10:


a) Haggadah
b) Halakhah
c) Brit
d) Bris

Question 11:


a) Palestine and Babylonia
b) Babylonia and Europe
c) Palestine and Spain
d) Spain and France

Question 12:


a) Sadducees
b) Pharisees
c) Essenes
d) Zealots

Question 13:


a) Tallit
b) Tefillin
c) Kippah
d) All of the above

Question 14:


a) The rainbow
b) Circumcision
c) A son
d) The Talmud

Question 15:


a) The oneness of God
b) The special status of Israel
c) The status of the Temple as a meeting place for God and Israel
d) All of the above

Question 16:


a) Gemarah
b) Midrash
c) Zohar
d) Septuagint

Question 17:


a) The Exodus
b) The Covenant
c) The Ten Commandments
d) The creation story

Question 18:


a) Julius Caesar
b) Alexander the Great
c) Cyrus of Persia
d) Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Question 19:


a) The Shema
b) The Kaddish
c) The Kā€™nesset
d) The Kippah

Question 20:


a) 500 CE
b) 586 BCE
c) 70 CE
d) 100 CE