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1) Which of the following is true of new religious movements in Japan? a
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1) Which of the following is true of new religious movements in Japan?
a. Most Japanese new religious movements have their roots in Zoroastrianism.
b. Japan has more new religious movements and people in them than other nations today.
c. The rapid changes in Japan in the 1800s resulted in the fall of many new religious movements.
d. Aum Shinrikyo is the largest and most respected new religious movement in Japan today.
2. Which of the following is true of the term "new religious movements"?
a. It is accurate and unambiguous.
b. It is rejected by all religion scholars.
c. It carries the connotation of a dangerous religion.
d. It is widely used today in religious studies.
3. Which of the following best describes the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
a. It is the historic name for the Mormon denomination now called Community of Christ.
b. It is a sectarian Mormon group that still practices plural marriage.
c. It is a scientific movement on the spiritual healing of disease.
d. It is the highest ruling body in Latter-day Saints.
4. What was a utopian new religious movement led by Jim Jones that ended in mass murder in Guyana in 1978?
a. Branch Davidian
b. People's Temple
c. Vedanta Society
d. Unification Church
5. Identify a true statement about Hindu new religious movements.
a. They were marginalized in the West.
b. They were often stronger in the West than in India.
c. They presented their beliefs in a language Westerners criticized.
d. They failed to reach Europe and the United States.
6. Which of the following is true of Hindu new religious movements in the West?
a. Vedantic beliefs were the most influential of the Hindu teachings in the West.
b. The teachings of Hinduism did not appear in the West until the 1900s.
c. Hinduism failed to influence Western intellectuals.
d. Hindu new religious movements were stronger in India than in the West.
7. Which of the following is a reason why new religious movements emerge quickly?
a. They are founded by a single person.
b. They are loosely organized.
c. They do not oppose mainstream society.
d. They start as international movements.
8. What is a belief that the world will end soon and God will bring a new, perfect society in place of the old one?
a. theocratic belief
b. atheistic belief
c. apocalyptic belief
d. inclusivist belief
9. Which of the following is a similarity between the Bible and the Book of Mormon?
a. Both these books are subdivided into chapters and verses.
b. Both these books promote polygamy.
c. Both these books have changed extensively from their first edition.
d. Both these books have six main parts.
10. Which of the following is true of the Christian Science Church?
a. It is a new religious movement founded by David Koresh.
b. It involves a view that the body, not the mind, is the source of health and sickness.
c. It had rejected medical science and treatment until around 2005.
d. It ended in mass murder in Guyana in 1978.
