REL 2300, QUIZ 2 (September 25, 2000)

INSTRUCTIONS:  If your first name begins with a letter A-G, use quiz 1 (RED, questions 1, 2, 3, 4).  For H-M, use quiz 2 (BLUE, questions 5,6,7,8).  For N-S, use quiz 3 (GREEN, questions 9, 10, 11, 12).  For T-Z, use quiz 4 (PURPLE, questions 13, 14, 15, 16).

1.  What is the name in Hinduism for ultimate reality?  Atman, Maya, or Brahman?
2.  What is the name of the work by Plato in which he argues for the immortality of the soul through reincarnation?
3.  What, for the Hindu, is the ultimate goal of life?
4.  Which division of Buddhism is most "transcendental"?  Is it Vajrayana, Theravada, or Mahayana?
5.  In Hinduism, what is the word for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth?
6.  What is the term describing a "path to a goal," a "union or integration"?  Is it Maya, Brahman, or Yoga?
7.  In traditional Hinduism, what is the general name for the class of people who are "untouchables," whom Ghandi called "The Childen of God"?  Is it Bhakti, outcastes, or moksha?
8.  What, for the Buddhist, causes suffering?
9.  For the Hindu, what is the self or soul, but more than an individual self or soul?  Is it Atman, Maya, or Brahman?
10.  What is the name of the Hindu creator God? Is it Shakti, Karma, or Brahma?
11.  Name one of the two "paths" constituting the four primary goals of human life in Hinduism.
12.  What, according to the Buddhist, is the way out of suffering?
13.  Name one of the four stages of life in Hinduism.
14.  What is the Hindu near equivalent for the Christian notion that "you reap what you sow" but the Hindu notion is one of an impersonal law of cause and effect?  Is it Karma, Maya, or Atman?
15.  Which of the castes in Hinduism is composed of "priests"?  Archbishops, Brahmins, or Raja?
16.  For the Buddhist, is it true that you should become a complete ascetic, abandoning all pleasure in this life?