HUMSS 111 SECOND QUARTER EXAM

The Theravada tradition evokes the image of Buddhist teaching as a vehicle that can cross over the
river of suffering.

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b. False

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Responsible understanding of religious traditions, practices and institutions

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a. Religiousness

b. Religious literacy
c. Religion
d. Spirituality

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The Final prophet and Messenger of God, according to Islamic tradition.

Muhammad
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Religion functions in the promotion of both violence and peace.

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One assumption of the cultural studies approach is that the method is discrete.

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Karma
Answer is the ethical repercussion of every action.

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The Mahayana tradition evokes the image of Buddhist teaching as a vehicle that can cross over the
river of suffering.

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Culture
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Shintoism is the ancient belief system indigenous to Japan.

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Methodism was the movement emphasizing the forgiveness of and grace of loving God.

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What is the form of violence that represents the existence of prevailing or prominent social norms
that make direct violence seem natural or right?

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b. Cultural violence
c. Behavioral violence
d. Direct violence

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This is conceptualized as a triad with three points of reference: God, Torah and Peoplehood.

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b. Judaism
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d. Confucianism
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The widespread genocide of Jews during the World War II.

Holocaust
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There is one God the Creator who communicates to people through prophets and revelation

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b. Christianity

c. Islam
d. Judaism

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The assumption/s of cultural studies approach in understanding religion is/are

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a. Knowledge claims arise from particular historical and cultural contexts

b. Culture is isolated from historical contexts and movements
c. Culture norms represent absolute and universal truths
d. Knowledge claims are relative from person to person thus are all equally valid

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Analects or “digested conversations”

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b. Confucianism
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Christians believe that the common ancestor of humankind is Abraham and his wife Sarah.

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b. True

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The presumptions of religious literacy is/are

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a. Religion, being socially constructed is malleable to changes.
b. Religion is static and isolated from historical and cultural movements.

c. There is a difference between religious learning and understanding about religion.

d. Religion is isolated from human political, social and cultural life.

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Cultura
Answer are the practices and processes of making meanings with and from texts we
encounter in our everyday lives.

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Violenc
Answer is any act of threatening one’s life or any act causing danger and harm; can be
of 3 forms: direct, structural, and cultural

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The Vajrayana tradition is more flexible about the orthodoxy of scriptures.

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Lao-tzu emphasized that respect for superiority is not blind obedience.

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Tao
Answer is a universal principle that underlies everything from the creation of galaxies to
the interaction of human beings.

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The Quran originally functioned as an oral scripture that was meant to be recited, heard and
experienced.

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Our minds and hearts house our inherent tendency towards moral goodness.

Inherent Goodness of People

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“Hinduness” is associated with Indian nationhood.

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Cultural studies primarily concerns in the following except
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a. Understanding about ritual practices and what scriptures say

b. Understanding how codes of behavior are articulated, enforced and reshaped
c. Understanding ways in which identities are formed
d. Heightening attention to beliefs and practices implicitly enforced

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Which of the following definitions pertain to Cultural Studies?

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a. an ensemble of beliefs and practices that function as a pervasive technology of control
b. a typical widespread practice, procedure or custom
c. a personal set of or institutionalized system of religious beliefs, attitudes and practices
d. the practices and processes of making meanings with and from texts we encounter in our

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The Son of God, according to Christian tradition.

Jesus
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A central theme of Taoism is that of non-mind.

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In Arabic, the word islam means submission.

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Monasticism was the movement emphasizing the forgiveness of and grace of loving God.

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If rulers follow the Dao then their states will be well ordered and in natural harmony.

Minimal governing
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The Creation goes through cycles of existence and dissolution.

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c. Islam

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Peace
Answer is not merely the absence of war but also freedom from disturbing thoughts or
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Veda
Answer is the sacred text of Hinduism, according to Hindu tradition.

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A religious literate person needs to understand the following except

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a. the diversity of religious beliefs, traditions and institutions among and within religions
b. understand the historical and cultural contexts that shaped religions
c. the interactions of socio-political and religious aspects of life

d. the truth about God and the ways to be saved

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Religiou
Answer is the responsible understanding of religious beliefs, practices, traditions and
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The idea of “many and the One” with which worship of diverse manifests One Ultimate

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b. Judaism
c. Islam
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The central and essential function of religion

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b. Religious literacy

c. Spirituality
d. Religiousness

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It has two major streams of tradition namely Theravada and Mahayana

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b. Buddhism
c. Taoism
d. Confucianism

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Its common themes are ritual conduct, humanity, filial obedience and good governing

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The Rabbinic texts include ritual sacrifices with offerings made to a wide array of deities.

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b. True

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The Dao De Jing repeatedly refers to the Tao as the father of everything.

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The belief in many gods.

Polytheism
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Theology is the academic study of religious beliefs, behaviors and institutions.

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All things eventually decay and return to their ultimate source within the Dao.

Return
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Judaism is conceptualized as a triad with three points of reference namely:

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a. God, Torah, Peoplehood

b. God, Bible, Peoplehood
c. God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit
d. God, Jesus and the Bible

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Jews believe that the common ancestor of humankind is Abraham and his wife Sarah.

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The movement in which Jews should be eliminated from the society.

Anti-semitism
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