Prep For Religion Test

Question 1

All of the gods of a group or religion

Ex: Sumerians and Akkadians = Mesopotamia religion

Answer 1

Pantheon

Question 2

A person who never claims their faith or belief in god

Answer 2

Agnosticism

Question 3

Believing the worlds full of spirits

Answer 3

Animism

Question 4

Connecting with a spirit through nature

Answer 4

Transcendental spiritual experience

Question 5

The effort to figure out what the gods are trying to say

Answer 5

Divination

Question 6

Great house means …………………….

Answer 6

Pharaoh

Question 7

The people thought that one god couldn’t do everything by himself

Answer 7

Why was Polytheism made

Question 8

Mesopotamians thought that when one died they would go to “hell” and they would eat dust and drink filthy water forever

Answer 8

Mesopotamia death

Question 9

Egyptians thought when one died that they would get their heart weighed, if the heart was heavier than a feather, their heart would get eaten and they would not exist, but if the heart was lighter they would live in the land of two fields happily

Answer 9

Egyptian death

Question 10

In the Mesopotamian religion humans were made to work for the gods and the gods repaid them for by taking care of their daily needs, also they mad statues, temples, and sacrificed themselves

Answer 10

Relationship of the Mesopotamian with their gods

Question 11

The function of the Mesopotamian temple was for dispensing grain, surplus of food to poor, counseled those in need, provided medical supplies, and sponsored festivals that honored the gods

Answer 11

Function of the Mesopotamian temple

Question 12

It was a combination of magic, mythology, science, medicine, psychiatry, study of plants, the understanding of religion in a high power, and a life after death

Answer 12

What was the Egyptian religion a combination of

Question 13

There were only chaotic, with slow churning waters, depthless, then a rose a hill as earth, the sun god spoke giving birth to the god of air, the god of moisture, the god of earth, and the goddess of the sky, then after heka gave birth to the universe

Answer 13

How was the Egyptian creation myth similar to Mesopotamian story

Question 14

Instead of being polytheistic, Hinduism is henotheism a god presenting himself in many forms

Answer 14

Why is Hinduism so special compared to other religions

Question 15

If someone acts rightly in performance of the duty, the reward is moving closer to the supreme god, if not its reincarnated again till the person is closer to its supreme soul

Answer 15

How does reincarnation relate being one with god in Hinduism

Question 16

The Maya believe that all things die are transformed and human life is part of that pattern in nature

Answer 16

What is a “cycle of nature” that Maya believe in

Question 17

The patterns in religion are many gods who take personal interest in the lives of people, a supernatural entity who speaks it, fashions it, commands it into existence, a supernatural explanation for the creation of earth and humans beings, a relationship between the created humans and their creator god require worship and sacrifice

Answer 17

What are the patterns in religion

Question 18

Buddhism is not one seeking with god but with nature as one leaves behind the illusions of the world, but the world causes suffering, fear of loss and death

Answer 18

What is Buddhism