Western Religion Multiple-Choice Question
1) When religions borrow stories, ideas, and/or gods from other religions it is called ______.
A. syncretism
B. plagiarism
C. prophesy
D. Shamanism
2) Marduk was ____________.
A. the Roman god of war
A. a Babylonian god elevated to the Ruler of the Gods
B. the supreme deity in Egypt
C. the patron of a Greek city
3) The oldest human-built religious structure that is still standing is _______ in modern day ____.
A. Gobekli Tepe in Turkey
B. Stonehenge in England
C. the Pyramids in Egypt
D. The Vatican in Italy
4) On the sixth Day in Genesis chapter 1, God made _____.
A. earth
B. water
C. humans
D. Plants
5) The Sabbath is the __ day when God ____.
A. 7th , rested
B. 1st, made light
C. holy, passed over the Israelites’ houses
D. judgement, kicked Adam & Eve out of the garden
6) God kicked humans out of the garden of Eden because they ________.
A. ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good & evil
B. had sex
C. killed and ate an animal
D. talked to a snake
7) God established a ____ with Abraham.
A. Family
B. Covenant
C. Religion
D. Tribe
8) The festival of Passover is a commemoration of ________.
A. the first Torah translation
B. the six days of Creation
C. the Exodus story
D. the victory of the Maccabees
9) Pentateuch is ________.
A. a king of the Northern Kingdom (Israel)
B. a king of the Southern Kingdom (Judea)
C. the Five Books of Moses
D. the Tent of Covenant
10) The three sections of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) are ________.
A. the Torah, the Pentateuch, and the Prophets
B. the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings
C. the Septuagint, the Prophets, and the Psalms
D. the Historical Books, the Prophets, and the Wisdom Books
11) Hanukkah celebrates ______.
A. God liberating the Israelites from slavery in Egypt
B. the destruction of of the walls of Jericho
C. Jews reclaiming and rededicating their temple in the Maccabean Revolt
D. rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem with help from Cyrus, the Persian Emperor
12) The Sabbath begins at sunset on ________ and continues until sunset on ___________.
A. Saturday, Sunday
B. Friday, Sunday
C. Friday, Monday
D. Friday, Saturday
13) Abraham _____ himself and all the males in his household as part of his Covenant with God.
A. sacrificed a ram on behalf of
B. circumcised
C. baptized
D. Cremated
14) Moses’ mother put him in a basket in the river because ______.
A. God told her to
B. she didn’t want another child
C. Pharaoh ordered all Israelite boy babies be killed
D. she thought it would be funny
15) God spoke to Moses from _____ to tell him to go help free his people slavery from Egypt.
A. a spotted ram
B. a burning bush
C. a mountain top
D. a cloud
16) The tenth plague in Exodus was _____.
A. Boils
B. Darkness
C. Death of the First Born
D. Sleeplessness
17) Sarah (in Genesis) did not think she would ever have a child because _____.
A. she prayed she wouldn’t
B. she never married
C. she was in her nineties
D. her children all died in childbirth
18) Semitic means ______.
A. Jewish
B. Descendants of Noah’s son Shem
C. Chosen by God
D. Holy
19) Hagar was _____.
A. The first woman
B. Isaac’s wife
C. the mother of Ishmael
D. an angel of God
20) David was ____ who _____.
A. Adam & Eve’s child who killed his brother
B. a Persian Emperor who conquered Babylon
C. Abraham’s nephew who lived in Sodom
D. a king of Israel who killed Goliath
