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WorksheetsZoroastrianism
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What was the western name given to the founder of the Zoroastrian religion?
Zoroaster
Zarathustra
Avesta
Yasna
What is a Tower of Silence?
A tower where a group prays silently during a funeral as reverence to the dead.
A tower where the dead body of a recently deceased Zoroastrian person is cremated.
A tower where the dead body of a Zoroastrian person is consumed by vultures until all the evil has been "eaten away."
A tower where one prays for the dead once every year.
What is the part of the Avesta containing Zoroastrian rituals and are hymns?
Vendidad
Avesta
Yasnas
True or False. Zoroastrian people that have migrated to Europe are known as Parsis.
True
False
Which event caused the a major decline in Zoroastrian influence in Persia?
Migration of Persians to India
Islamic Conquest of Persia
None. Zoroastrianism persisted strongly in Persia.
Using what belief/ritual do Zoroastrian people stay away from Angra Maiyu?
They don't. Angra Maiyu represents the light of god.
They do so by taking a pilgrimage to Persia where their religion originated.
They pray to Zarathustra to allow positivity and goodness in their lives.
They do so using fire rituals to represent purification of evil into good.
What is a core belief of Zoroastrianism?
Good always beats evil and eventually, evil will be gone forever.
A person's life is filled with evil, and Zoroastrian rituals are the only way for good to replace that evil.
Ahura Mazda and Angra Maiyu are in battle over good and evil, and by worshiping Ahura Mazda, Angra Maiyu will lose.
Good and evil coexist, but good should always win over evil.
True or False. Zoroastrianism was founded by Zoroaster in Jerusalem, but most of the religious followers relocated to Persia.
True
False
Which of the following is an example of a continuity of the religion?
The religion is dominant in Persia.
Rituals and structures like fire purification and the Tower of Silence carry on today.
Even though conquest occurred, many of the religion's old texts, art, and architecture were restored.
True or False. Darius the Great greatly suppressed the spread of Zoroastrianism in Persia.
False
True
