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AP Test 6 Review
Name___________________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) The belief in the existence of only one god is
1) _______
A) pagan.
B) monotheism.
C) cosmogony.
D) polytheism.
E) animism.
2) Baptists are clustered in the ________ United States.
A) southern
B) northeastern
C) southwestern
D) upper midwestern
E) A and D
2) _______
3) Mahayanists, in contrast to Theravadists, emphasize Buddha's
A) renouncing of worldly goods.
B) practice of meditation.
C) compassion.
D) life of self-help.
E) wisdom.
3) _______
4) The concept of a ghetto originally referred to the area of a city
A) where most blacks lived.
B) where the untouchable caste lived.
C) inside the walls.
D) where Jews were forced to live.
E) inhabited by the lowest-income people.
4) _______
5) Adherents of which religion are also likely to believe in other religions simultaneously?
A) Hinduism
B) Islam
C) Buddhism
D) Christianity
E) Judaism
5) _______
6) Protestants in Ireland are
A) dispersed throughout the island.
B) highly integrated with the Roman Catholic population.
C) recent immigrants from Great Britain.
D) highly clustered in one part of the island.
E) A and B
6) _______
7) Religion is a particularly good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity
because
A) all religions are in competition to convert as many people as possible.
B) religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others.
C) many people follow more than one religion.
D) migrants leave their religion behind when they migrate to a new area.
7) _______
8) Adherents of which religion controlled much of present-day Spain until 1492, but not since
then?
A) Hinduism
B) Islam
C) Druze
D) Christianity
E) Buddhism
8) _______
9) Which religion is one of the three most important in Lebanon?
A) Daoism
B) Sikhism
C) Judaism
D) Druze
9) _______
E) Hinduism
10) Eastern Orthodoxy is an example of a Christian
A) family.
B) denomination.
C) sect.
D) branch.
E) religion.
10) ______
11) Roman Catholics are clustered in the ________ United States.
A) northeastern
B) upper midwestern
C) southwestern
D) southern
E) A and C
11) ______
12) With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment
A) few religions derive meaningful events from the physical environment.
B) religion is no longer an important source of identification for a distinct cultural group.
C) all religions appeal primarily to people living in their land of origin.
D) religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical
environment.
E) All of the above are true.
12) ______
13) Cremation is more important than burial in which religion?
A) Christianity
B) Judaism
C) Buddhism
D) Islam
E) Hinduism
13) ______
14) Animists believe that
A) people should make complete use of the Earth's resources.
B) enlightenment can be achieved by all people.
C) inanimate objects and natural events have spirits.
D) people should complete God's creation of the Earth.
E) natural disasters are preventable.
14) ______
15) Roman Catholics are clustered in the U.S. southwest primarily because of migration of
A) Roman Catholics from the northeast United States.
B) Protestants to the north.
C) Protestants to the east.
15) ______
D) Roman Catholics from Latin America.
E) Roman Catholics from Ireland.
16) Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are
A) animism.
B) cosmogony.
C) astronomy.
D) polytheism.
E) monotheism.
16) ______
17) Almost 90 percent of people in the Western Hemisphere claim adherence to
A) Protestantism.
B) Roman Catholicism.
C) Eastern Orthodoxy.
D) Christianity.
17) ______
18) Which of the following is currently the most important religion in the homeland of the man who
founded it?
A) Christianity
B) Buddhism
C) Hinduism
D) Islam
E) Shintoism
18) ______
19) A universalizing religion
A) appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations.
B) is based on the physical characteristics of a particular location on Earth.
C) is less likely to be used as a reason for violence than ethnic religions.
D) has celebrations based on seasonal changes.
E) is rarely transmitted through missionaries.
19) ______
20) Christianity first diffused from its hearth through
A) contagious diffusion.
B) relocation diffusion.
C) hierarchical diffusion.
D) expansion diffusion.
E) all of the above
20) ______
21) Israel has controlled all of Jerusalem since
A) partition of Palestine by the United Nations in 1947.
B) the Six-Day War in 1967.
C) the withdrawal of British rule in 1948.
D) the Egyptian and Israeli peace treaty of 1979.
E) the Arab-Israeli armistice of 1949.
21) ______
22) The dominant branch of Islam is
A) Sikh.
B) Sunni.
C) Shiite.
D) Druze.
E) Eastern Orthodoxy.
22) ______
23) An ethnic religion is
A) younger than a universalizing religion.
23) ______
B) based on only one language.
C) based on belief in one particular spiritual leader.
D) appealing mostly to one group of people in one place.
24) Which of the following best describes the situation of religion in Tibet?
A) Freedom of religion is protected by provincial law.
B) Only a few practice Buddhism; the majority observe Confucianism.
C) Tibetan leaders have a high degree of local control over the policies of their province.
D) Its spiritual leader is in exile and the government discourages observance.
24) ______
25) Which is a branch of Christianity?
A) Druze
B) Judaism
C) Eastern Orthodox
D) Shiite
E) Theravadist
25) ______
26) Hinduism's caste system
A) is the basis for seasonal celebrations.
B) decrees the pilgrimages which should be taken.
C) assigns everyone to a distinct class.
D) identifies a family's important deities.
E) is a substitute for the lack of a holy book.
26) ______
27) Adherents of which religion have controlled the Holy Land for most of the past 1,500 years?
A) Sikhism
B) Judaism
C) Hinduism
D) Christianity
E) Islam
27) ______
28) Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?
A) Judaism
B) Buddhism
C) Sikhism
D) Islam
E) Christianity
28) ______
29) Palestinians include all but which of the following groups?
A) Jewish citizens of Israel
B) residents of territories occupied by Israel
C) residents of refugee camps
D) citizens of other states calling themselves Palestinians
E) Muslim citizens of Israel
29) ______
30) The situation in Northern Ireland is the result of
A) counties in Northern Ireland voting to remain in the United Kingdom.
B) violence committed by extreme partisans on both sides.
C) Catholic protest against discrimination by Protestants.
D) British colonial control which contributed to poor economic conditions.
E) all of the above
30) ______
31) Which of these penalties were imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan?
A) Men were beaten for shaving their beards.
B) Prostitutes were hanged in public, and men were stoned for committing adultery.
C) Homosexuals were buried alive.
D) Thieves' hands were cut off, and women with nail polish had their fingers cut off.
E) all of the above
31) ______
32) A mosque differs from a church, because a mosque
A) displays a variety of architectural styles.
B) is not a sanctified place.
C) contains relics of the founder.
D) is decorated with scenes from the life of the founder.
E) is not a place of worship.
32) ______
33) A large and fundamental division within a religion is a
A) family.
B) dialect.
C) denomination.
D) sect.
E) branch.
33) ______
34) The people of Quebec are distinguished from residents of neighboring Canadian provinces and
the United States because they
A) want to become part of France again.
B) don't speak an Indo-European language.
C) are not predominantly Christian.
D) frequently use religious toponyms.
E) practice religious tolerance.
34) ______
35) Lutheranism is an example of a Christian
A) family.
B) denomination.
C) branch.
D) sect.
E) religion.
35) ______
36) The barrier between Israel and the West Bank
A) is welcomed by both sides.
B) follows the previous border between Israel and Jordan
C) represents the natural landscape feature of the Jordan River.
D) has been ruled as illegal by both Israeli and international courts.
36) ______
37) Which is not an ethnic Asian religion?
A) Buddhism
B) Confucianism
C) Hinduism
D) Shintoism
E) Daoism
37) ______
38) The United Nations partition plan dividing Palestine placed Jerusalem under
A) Israeli administration.
B) a British Mandate
38) ______
C) United Nations administration.
D) divided administration.
E) Palestinian administration.
39) Which is not a characteristic of a hierarchical religion?
A) It has a well-defined hierarchical structure.
B) Regional administration is located in large cities.
C) It organizes territory into local administrative units.
D) It fosters interaction among different congregations.
E) It encourages each congregation to be self-sufficient.
39) ______
40) Which ethnic religion follows a lunar calendar?
A) Judaism
B) Sikhism
C) Islam
D) Hinduism
E) all of the above
40) ______
41) What is the holiest book in Hinduism?
A) the Amrit
B) the Old Testament
C) the Bible
D) the Quran
E) none of the above
41) ______
42) Muslims are clustered in
A) South America
B) East Asia.
C) Eastern Europe.
D) Sub-Saharan Africa.
E) the Middle East.
42) ______
43) What policy did the British follow in India?
A) They turned the problem over to the United Nations.
B) They encouraged the abolishment of the caste system.
C) They forced all of the Hindus to migrate.
D) They required all education to be conducted in English.
E) They divided India into two countries.
43) ______
44) Especially important in Daoism is to
A) believe in one all-powerful God.
B) perform public service.
C) respect forces of nature as divine.
D) read the holy texts daily.
E) reflect on the mystical and magical aspects of life.
44) ______
45) Lutherans are clustered in the ________ United States.
A) upper midwestern
B) southwestern
C) southern
D) northeastern
E) B and C
45) ______
46) Unlike other universalizing religions, Buddhism
A) was not begun by an individual founder.
B) worships more than one god.
C) was founded in China.
D) remained concentrated in one region of the world.
E) diffused primarily by colonization.
46) ______
47) Jerusalem's geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve because
A) the population of Jerusalem is majority Christian but surrounded by majority Jewish and
Muslim populations on either side.
B) Israel captured the Sinai peninsula from Egypt.
C) the Israeli government has separated the most sacred sites with a massive concrete wall.
D) sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are literally built one on top the other.
47) ______
48) The world's largest universalizing religion is
A) Shintoism.
B) Christianity.
C) Islam.
D) Buddhism.
E) Hinduism.
48) ______
49) Followers of which religious branch do not trace their origin to Abraham?
A) Judaism
B) Eastern Orthodox
C) Mahayana
D) Sunni
E) Shiite
49) ______
50) From the Russian Revolution to the fall of the communist government, what was the policy of
the government towards religion?
A) Youth were encouraged to attend so that they could be indoctrinated into communism.
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