World Religions Test #3: Christianity and Islam

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World Religions
GHUM 1143
Test #3
Christianity
1. These gospels are known as the synoptic gospels because of their similar views of
Jesus' career.
a) Matthew, Mark, John
b) Matthew, John, Luke
c) Matthew, Mark, Luke
d) Matthew, Mark, Romans
Answer: c) Matthew, Mark, Luke
2. St. Augustine of Hippo argued against this contemporary because of his theory that
humans were not so tainted as to be unable to choose the good of their own free will.
a) Georgy the Great
b) Pelaguis
c) Anthony of Eygpt
d) Pachomius
Answer: b) Pelaguis
3. The most critical intellectual issue of the Middle Ages was framed as a question.
This question was answered by two competing perspectives: __________ and
___________.
a) Scholasticism, mysticism
b) The Continental Reformation, Humanism
c) Nicene Creed, Theotokos
d) Beguines, Beghards
Answer: a) Scholasticism, mysticism
4. One of the forms of Christianity that formed outside the mainstream forms of the
Christian Church is:
a) Messianism.
b) Gnosticism
c) Redemptionism.
d) Scientology
Answer: b) Gnosticism

5. The belief that because God is all-powerful and all-knowing, a human being's
ultimate reward or punishment is already decreed by God; a notion emphasized in
Calvinism.
a) Eucharist.
b) sacrament.
c) Predestination
d) Indulgence.
Answer: c) Predestination
6. In Pentecostalism, this term is a gift that is bestowed on to the followers during the
Feast of the Pentecost; this is also known as “speaking in tongues.”
a) Glossolalia
b) Filioque
c) Apocrypha.
d) Aggiornamentto
Answer: a) Glossolalia
7. The Christian belief that the one God has three aspects---Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit---is called the doctrine of the
a) Holy Eucharist.
b) Cross.
c) Three in One.
d) Trinity.
Answer: d) Trinity.
8. A creed can be defined as a
a) profession of doctrinal belief.
b) profession from Saul.
c) profession of prayer.
d) profession from Moses.
Answer: a) profession of doctrinal belief.
9. This major event in the 1960s established several major changes in public worship
within Catholicism. These changes included using the vernacular rather than Latin in
the liturgy and simplification of rites.
a) Council of Nicaea
b) Fall of Constantinople
c) Vatican I
d) Vatican II
Answer: d) Vatican II

10. This founder of a Medieval Monastic Order was sainted in 1228 and is the first
recorded individual to have received the stigmata.
a) Thomas Merton.
b) Julian of Norwich.
c) Johannes Eckhart.
d) Francis of Assisi.
Answer: d) Francis of Assisi.
11. This Western Roman Emperor is the individual who is responsible for changing
Christianity from persecution to a power-holder of the Roman Empire.
a) Augustus
b) Hadrian
c) Constantine
d) Nero
Answer: c) Constantine
12. The first major church council was held in 325 C.E. at
a) Nicaea.
b) Jerusalem.
c) Alexandria.
d) Chalcedon.
Answer: a) Nicaea.
13. This early founder of Protestant Ideology that had great influence in The Protestant
Reformation argued that the Eucharist was strictly symbolic.
a) Ulrich Zwingli
b) Jean (John) Calvin
c) Martin Luther
d) Ignatius Loyola
Answer: a) Ulrich Zwingli
14. The Eastern branch of Christianity
a) Eucharist
b) Lent
c) Trinity
d) Orthodoxy
Answer: d) Orthodoxy
15. A distinctive feature of the Eastern Orthodox Church is its veneration of ______.
a) Icons