Chapter 15 Learning About Hinduism

1. India's first major religion

• 1. Buddhism

• Hebrew

• Hinduism

• Ramyana

2. The Vedas are ____________________

• warriors

• a collection of Hindu sacred texts

• ancient laws

• sheep herders

The Kshatriyas hold which jobs on the caste system ladder....

• priests

• rulers and warriors

• herders and merchants

• trash collectors

4. Who are the Shudras in the caste system?

• herders

• servants

• care for the dead

• rulers

5. When a society is divided into groups and people born into the group is assigned a job, that is known as the ________________

• Hindu law

• Ramayana

• Caste System

• Vedas

6. A belief that a person's soul is reborn after death

• obligation

• reincarnation

• karma

• Hinduism

7. According to Hinduism, the main supreme power in the universe is

• Rama

• Ganesh

• Shiva

• Brahman

8. Who started the Hindu religion known as Hinduism?

• No one knows

• Indians

• Aryans

• Pakistanians

9. Brahman creates the universe, Vishnu protects the universe, and Shiva _________ the universe.

• destroys

• fixes

• makes

10. In the caste system, the Vaishyas are the herders and the

• servants

• warriors

• merchants