The Urantia Brotherhood School

Final Exam for a Course in
the World Religions
Instructor: Tom Wideroe
June 3, 1959

Part I

1. Hinduism	8. Jainism
2. Judaism	9. Christianity
3. Buddhism	10. Islam
4. Confucianism	11. Sikhism
5. Taoism	12. The religion of Melchizedek
6. Zoroastrianism	13. The religion of Jesus
7. Shinto

For each word or description below, enter the number of the related religion from the key above.

1. _______ Lao-Tse
2. _______ Caste
3. _______ Fire is their holy symbol
4. _______ Isaiah
5. _______ This religion expanded into China, Japan, and Southern Asia
6. _______ Yahweh
7. _______ This religion is chiefly interesting to us, not because of present adherence to a dying cult, but because it profoundly affected Judaism and Christianity
8. _______ The religion of Asceticism
9. _______ A dual concept of Divinity
10. _______ He taught faith and trust
11. _______ Mecca
12. _______ Religion of the Divine Way
13. _______ Moses
14. _______ Karma
15. _______ The religion of submission to a world-potentate
16. _______ Their Heaven is a physical one
17. _______ Parsees
18. _______ Its weakness has been the association of military force with its promulgation and degradation of women
19. _______ The Vedas
20. _______ This religion ministers to superstitious fear
21. _______ Amos
22. _______ The first international religion
23. _______ Gandhi
24. _______ The religion of social propriety
25. _______ Nordan
26. _______ All living things have souls
27. _______ Transmigration of souls
28. _______ Nirvana
29. _______ Founded originally on Proto-Taoism
30. _______ Allah
31. _______ He made a fetish of order
32. _______ They almost literally worship their scriptures called "The Granth"
33. _______ Dervishes
34. _______ Philo
35. _______ Its great strength: the most adaptive, amorphic religion to appear on Urantia
36. _______ Kaaba
37. _______ Ahura Mazda
38. _______ He taught love and service
39. _______ This religion had a miracle expansion
40. _______ Baal
41. _______ Guru Nanak
42. _______ Its great strength: adherents are free to choose truth from all religions
43. _______ Vultures devour the dead
44. _______ Jehovah
45. _______ Its great strength: A clear-cut and well defined presentation of the one and only Deity
46. _______ Very simple creed
47. _______ Brahman
48. _______ Grand Lama
49. _______ Has always been the religion of the intellectual Chinese
50. _______ This religion developed patriotism
51. _______ This religion makes plain man's duty
52. _______ Koran
53. _______ This religion always brought the monastery
54. _______ This religion spread into Eastern Asia and Japan, but withered and died in the land of its inception.
55. _______ The religion of peaceful, ethical self-culture
56. _______ They have hospitals for insects and sick cows
57. _______ Emperor worship

Part II

Answer questions 1, 2, and 10 and any two of the remaining:

1. In China, one does not cease to be a devotee of one religion by appropriating the benefits of the others. The three great religions of the Chinese -- Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism -- are each in a measure a religious answer to some mood of the Chinese soul. Discuss these three religions briefly with special reference to how each seems to satisfy the religious aspiration.

2. Buddhism had a remarkable physical expansion in Eastern Asia after the death of its founder. It also has had a profound spiritual growth. Discuss briefly this physical expansion and how it has progressed spiritually.

3. Compare Brahman and the God of Christianity.

4. Discuss briefly Caste in its social and religious aspects.

5. Compare the Hindu's attitude toward death to that of the Christian's.

6. Discuss briefly the expansion of Islam.

7. Name the five essentials of Hinduism.

8. Discuss briefly the story of Iknaton.

9. Compare any two religions we have studied.

10. a) Name the five events of religious revelation that are of epochal significance. b) Name the seven major religious epochs of post-Adamic Urantia.