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DSST Intro to World Religions Exam Prep - Question List

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11. The Crusades were a series of religious wars primarily waged between Christians and:
  1. Secular governments.
  2. People who did not adhere to a religion.
  3. Jews.
  4. Muslims.
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12. Of the following pairs of religions, which two gave women access to spiritual salvation?
  1. Christianity and Buddhism
  2. Christianity and Judaism
  3. Confucianism and Buddhism
  4. Daoism and Christianity
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13. What do existentialists believe?
  1. Each individual must make his or her own ethical existence without necessarily having hope of an afterlife or guidance of an organized religion.
  2. One God exists for all humans and organized religion helps to lead toward true morality.
  3. Life is essentially meaningless because the universe is amoral and uncaring.
  4. All religions are valid and religion helps people to reach divinity.
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14. The right of a head of state to choose the religion that was practiced in his nation was first established by:
  1. Peace of Augsburg
  2. Council of Trent
  3. Peace of Westphalia
  4. Peace of Paris
  5. Edict of Worms
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15. Baruch Spinoza is known for which of the following?
  1. Using scientific thought to prove the existence of God
  2. Developing secular humanism
  3. Reconsidering the role of history in understanding modern society
  4. Arguing that God did not have consciousness
  5. Mediating common ground among Protestant faiths
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