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Midterm Review: Religions

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Shintoism is the indigenous religion of...

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

Arabia

d)

Europe

2.

Shintoism believes in the relationship between spirits and nature. This is called...

a)

animism

b)

indigenous

c)

papal

d)

monotheistic

3.

A religion in Japan that diffused from China was...

a)

Buddhism

b)

Christianity

c)

Islam

d)

Hinduism

4.

Zen Buddhism practiced which two forms of self-discipline?

a)

pilgrimmage

b)

martial arts

c)

meditation

d)

rituals

5.

Muhammad founded which religion?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Judaism

c)

Christianity

d)

Islam

6.

Islam and Christianity both believe in one God. The term for this is...

a)

monotheistic

b)

polytheistic

c)

jurassic

d)

indigenous

7.

Christianity diffused into Europe mostly because of which two reasons?

a)

missionaries traveled and taught Christianity

b)

merchants encouraged people to convert

c)

soldiers killed people who did not convert

d)

the Roman Empire made Christianity its religion before it ended.

8.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity was the official religion of...

a)

Abbasid Empire

b)

Byzantine Empire

c)

Tang Dynasty

d)

Yuan Dynasty

9.

Select all of the religions practiced in West Africa.

a)

Buddhism

b)

Christianity

c)

Islam

d)

Local traditional religions

10.

The religion that is most widely practiced in North and West Africa is...

a)

Buddhism

b)

Christianity

c)

Islam

d)

Local traditional religions

11.

Who is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church?

a)

Buddha

b)

Patriarchs

c)

the Pope

d)

the Sultan

12.

Who leads the Eastern Orthodox Church?

a)

the Emperor

b)

Patriarchs

c)

the Pope

d)

the Shogun

13.

Christians and Muslims fought the Crusades over control of...

a)

the Byzantine Empire and Istanbul

b)

West Africa and Jerusalem

c)

the Holy Land and Constantinople

d)

the Holy Land and Jerusalem

14.

What two events severely weakened the power of the Catholic pope?

a)

the Bubonic Plague

b)

the Crusades

c)

the Inquisition

d)

the Reconquista

15.

The Reconquista was fought to remove this religion from control in the Iberian Peninsula.

a)

Christianity

b)

Islam

c)

Judaism

d)

Shintoism

16.

The Inquisition was approved by this Church to rid Spain of heretics and non-believers.

a)

Animism

b)

Christianity

c)

Islam

d)

Shintoism

17.

West African traditional religion believed that these could influence your daily life.

a)

monks

b)

aristocrats

c)

saints

d)

ancestors

18.

Which three best describe the religion of the Aztecs and Maya?

a)

polytheistic

b)

bloodletting

c)

Abrahamic

d)

animism

e)

monotheistic

19.

Indigenous North American religions can be characterized as...

a)

animism

b)

monotheistic

c)

highly structured

d)

hierarchical

20.

This term describes Christian religions in Western Europe that were not Roman Catholic.

a)

Eccumenical

b)

Orthodox

c)

Protestant

d)

Aristocratic

21.

Which of the following civilizations did not have a structured religious hierarchy?

a)

Roman Catholic Christians

b)

Muslims

c)

Aztecs

d)

Japanese