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DSST Intro to World Religions Exam Prep - Question List

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1.

Which religion is NOT correctly paired with one of its sacred texts?

  1. Buddhism: Theravada
  2. Islam: Qur'an
  3. Judaism: Tanakh
  4. Hinduism: Upanishads
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2. Muslim prophet Muhammad migrated from _________________ to _________________, where he ultimately integrated Muslim Arabia under a singular Islamic polity.
  1. Medina to Mecca
  2. Damascus to Mecca
  3. Medina to Baghdad
  4. Baghdad to Damascus
  5. Mecca to Medina
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3. The 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent yielded two countries, which were divided between people of which two religions?
  1. Muslim and Christian
  2. Hindu and Muslim
  3. Buddhist and Hindu
  4. Christian and Buddhist
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4.

"Therefore, your Worship should know that it has pleased us to remove all conditions whatsoever, which were in the rescripts formerly given to you officially, concerning the Christians and now any one of these who wishes to observe Christian religion may do so freely and openly, without molestation."

Who among the following leaders was a signatory to the document quoted above?

  1. Pope Leo I
  2. Charlemagne
  3. Constantine
  4. Justinian
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5. Which of the following combinations of civilizations, leaders, and religious figures is incorrect?
  1. Sumer - Gilgamesh - pantheon of many deities
  2. Israel - Saul - Yahweh
  3. Persia/Achaemenid Empire - Cyrus the Great - Ahura Mazda
  4. Babylonia - Hammurabi - Muhammad
  5. New Kingdom Egypt - Ramses III - Ra
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