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WorksheetsJudaism Test
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 47mins
Judaism places great emphasis on group identity.
True
False
Observant Jews avoid speaking God's name, out of reverence.
True
False
The Mishnah is based directly on the Talmud.
True
False
The Pharisees focused on Torah, rather than on the Temple.
True
False
Judaism became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century.
True
False
Jews lived in relative peace and prosperity in Muslim Spain and Poland during the medieval period.
True
False
Kabbalah does not observe the basic forms of Jewish practice, such as keeping the commandments of the Torah.
True
False
Jewish mystics are more focused on the ultimate transcendence of God than on the immanence of God.
True
False
Large Hasidic communities still exist today in North America and elsewhere.
True
False
Fewer than half of the world's Jews live in Israel.
True
False
Orthodox Judaism rejects all aspects of modernity.
True
False
Conservative Judaism is relatively relaxed regarding observance of traditional Jewish practices.
True
False
Judaism is far more concerned with correct practice than with correct belief.
True
False
In Judaism males alone are required to wear certain ritual accessories during prayer.
True
False
The Sabbath, for all but some Reform Jews, begins at sunset on Saturday and lasts until sunset on Sunday.
True
False
With only about fourteen million adherents worldwide, Judaism is one of the world's smallest major religions.
True
False
The people who conquered Palestine and the
surrounding area in the seventh century A.D
(a)
The man God called to be the father of a great
nation; the first patriarch.
(a)
Abraham's grandson, also known as Israel.
(a)
The person who helped free the Israelites from
slavery in Egypt.
(a)
The Israelite king whom Jews have always regarded
as a prototype of the Messiah.
(a)
The person who built the Temple in Jerusalem.
(a)
The people who conquered the northern kingdom,
Israel, in 722 B.C.
(a)
The people who conquered the southern kingdom,
Judah, in about 587 B.C.
(a)
The people who destroyed the Jerusalem Temple
for the second time in A.D. 70.
(a)
A Jewish philosopher who lived in Muslim Spain during the medieval period and who applied the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle to the biblical tradition and contributed Judaism's most famous statement of beliefs
(a)
God's name appears in the Bible in the Hebrew equivalents of the letters
INRI
YHWH
TNK
TOR
The five books of the Torah are
traditionally believed to have been revealed directly by God to
Moses
the central statement of Judaism's religious laws
a summary of the entire Hebrew Bible
both a and b
Jews refer to the Hebrew Bible as the
Tanakh
Old Testament
Talmud
both a and b
He received the Law at Mount Sinai and is regarded as the Torah's author
Abraham
Jacob
Moses
David
It is most accurate to think of the Jews as
a single "race" of genetically related people
an ethnic group that shares a common history and religion
adherents of the first official religion in history
both a and c
Jews believe that God is
directly involved in history
completely uninvolved in history
at times subject to humans
none of the above
The second large-scale revolt the Jews waged against Romans ended in A.D. 135 when the Romans
leveled Jerusalem.
decreed that Jews could no longer inhabit Palestine
agreed to allow Jewish representatives in the Roman government
both a and b
The most important events in Israelite history were
the Exodus from Egypt and the revelation on Mount Sinai
the fall of the northern kingdom (Israel) and the revelation on
Mount Sinai
fall of the southern kingdom (Judah) and the revelation on Mount Sinai
none of the above
Israel was granted statehood in
1933
1956
1948
1941
Torah define
worship
ethical conduct
both a and b
none of the above
Literally "instruction"; the will of God as it is revealed to humankind
(a)
The most famous of the 613 laws in the Torah, found in chapter 20 of Exodus
(a)
A building for Jewish worship
(a)
Greek for "five books"; the Torah
(a)
Someone who is called to speak for God
(a)
The starting point for rabbinic study of the oral Torah; a collection of sacred traditions that was written down in about A.D. 200 and contains teachings of the rabbis of the preceding four centuries
(a)
The situation of Jews living away from their homeland, a circumstance that has been true for most Jews since the classical period
(a)
The vast depository blending together the oral and written forms of Torah, based on the Mishnah with extensive rabbinic commentary
(a)
The most famous text of Jewish mysticism
(a)
Jewish mysticism, which teaches that God can best be known with the heart
(a)
A form of Judaism that arose in eighteenth century eastern Europe and emphasizes mysticism, a personal relationship with God and the community, and the leadership of the zaddik
(a)
A movement that was originally committed to the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland; since 1948, generally the support of Israel
(a)
The persecution of the Jews by German Nazis from 1938 to 1945, resulting in the murder of nearly six million Jews; sometimes called Shoah
(a)
A teacher of Torah and leader of Jewish
worship
(a)
The high point of the Passover festival
(a)
What Yom Kippur emphasizes
(a)
A physical feature that distinguished the Israelites from people of other nations
(a)
A coming-of-age ritual for a Jewish girl
(a)
A prayer of mourning
(a)
Extra Credit: Most basic theological statement and prayer of Judaism (Deuteronomy 6:4).
(a)
Extra Credit: What was Schindler's first name?
(a)
Extra Credit: The Bible itself is sometimes referred to as the Tanakh (from T-N-K). What do the three letters stand for. Write your answer separated by commas.
(a)
Extra Credit: Which came first: the chicken or the egg?
(a)
Who is the NBA G.O.A.T?
(a)
