FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION IN INTRO TO WORLD RELIGIONS
AND BELIEF SYSTEM
HUMSS 12
ND
(2 SEMESTER)
S.Y.2022-2023
Name: ______________________________________
Grade & Section: __________________________
I.
Score: _______________________
Teacher: SR. FATIMA F. RANCE, DSJ
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read and understand each question carefully. Encircle your best
answer.
1. Based on the etymology of the word, “religion” means.
a. To tie or bind
b. To join again or to reconnect
c. To tread carefully
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
2. Religion contains ___________________, which refers to a set of beliefs that is both coherent and
comprehensive.
a. A worldview
b. An idealogy
c. A philosophy
3. It is called the transcendental world or supernatural world.
a. Worldview
b. Spiritual World
c. Sacredness
4. For believing in a spiritual or non-physical world, religion is therefore opposed to:
a. Idealism
b. Materialism
c. Spiritualism
5. Religion regards certain things as _________________, which are contrasted with ordinary or
secular things.
a. Practical
b. Sacred
c. Useful
6. If something has value on its own, its sacredness is said to be ____________________.
a. Derived
b. Figurative
c. Inherent
7. It is referring to guidelines concerning how human ought to relate to the divine, treat one another, or
behave towards one another God, gods and reverend teachers.
a. Ethical codes
b. Sacred writings
c. Community
8. Believers usually involves an organization consisting of a hierarchy of authorities.
a. Ethical codes
b. Sacred writings
c. Community
9. Contain their main teachings or doctrines, central stories, ethical codes, and prophecies.
a. Ethical codes
b. Sacred writings
c. Community
10. These _________________can be in the form of music, dance, architectural design, sculpture,
poetry, drama, and others.
a. Central Stories
b. Rituals
c. Artistic Expressions
11. Ceremonies that reenact sacred stories such as songs and dance to express praise.
a. Central Stories
b. Rituals
c. Artistic Expressions
12. Some scholars refer to these stories as “myths” as being a story that is purely imaginary or that is
historically untrue.
a. Central Stories
b. Rituals
c. Artistic Expressions
13. What is the meaning of “theology”?
a. Study of Mary
b. Study of Jesus
c. Study of God
14. For other religions, the systematic study of their doctrines is usually referred to
__________________.
a. Theology
b. Philosophy
c. Religious Studies
15. This studies different religions of the world usually “from the outside.”
a. Comparative Religion
b. Theology
c. Religious Studies
16. This is a branch of religious studies that systematically compares the doctrines and practices of the
different world religions.
a. Comparative Religion
b. Theology
c. Religious Studies
17. This deals with issues like weather the existence of God can be adequately proven and whether the
existence of evil can be adequately demonstrated to be compatible with the goodness and power of
God.
a. Psychology of religion
b. Sociology of religion
c. Philosophy of religion
18. This person is the most influential proponent of comparative religion in the nineteenth century.
a. Friedrich Max Muller
b. James G. Frazer
c. Mircea Eliade
19. The following is a Christian theologian and philosopher famous for his five proofs for the existence
of God.
a. St. Augustine
b. St. Thomas Aquinas
c. St. Anselm
20. He is the founder of psychoanalysis who saw religion as a childish illusion that serves as a
mechanism for people to deal with their helplessness and anxiety.
a. William James
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Carl Jung
21. He saw religion, particularly the Protestant Church of Calvinism, as the one that created capitalism.
a. Karl Marx
b. Emile Durkheim
c. Max Weber
22. He saw the essence of religion, or the minimum defining property of religion, as “the belief in
Spiritual Beings,” which he called animism.
a. Karl Marx
b. Emile Durkheim
c. Edward Burnett Tylor
23. He was the founder of analytic psychology who saw religion as a way of making persons whole.
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Carl Jung
c. William James
24. The best-known scholar of comparative religion of the last generation.
a. Friedrich Max Muller
b. James G. Frazer
c. Mircea Eliade
25. The word _______________________ means science of human beings or humanity.
a. Anthropology
b. Psychology
c. Philosophy
II.
MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE: Write TRUE if the statement is correct but if its’s false,
change the underlined word/words with the correct answer to make the statement correct. Write
the answer in the space provided. (2 POINTS EACH)
__________________1. Sociology of religion, on the other hand, studies religious beliefs, practices, and
organization using the theories and method.
__________________2. Marx described religion as “opium of the masses”.
__________________3. Freud viewed religion positively.
__________________4. The terms “Judaism” and “Jew” were derived from Levi the fourth of the 12 sons
of Jacob.
__________________5. The Non-Jews, on that other hand, are called God’s chosen people.
__________________6. Two persons are considered founders of Judaism, Abraham and Joshua.
__________________7. Willian James seen religion as something positive.
__________________8. James G. Frazer is the most influential premodern work in comparative religion.
__________________9. Abraham was first called “Abram”.
__________________10. The wife of Abraham was called first “Sinai” but later on called Sarah by God.
III.
MATCHING TYPE: Match column A with column B. Write the answer on the space provided
before each number.
COLUMN A
COLUMN B
____________1. The belief that there is only on God.
A. Panentheism
____________2. The belief that there are many gods.
B. Atheism
____________3. It serves and worships a single god while
recognizing the existence of other gods that can
equally be served and worshipped.
_____________4. It worships a single god at a time, or when
it worships different gods at different times, depending
on the person’s needs.
_____________5. Views that God or gods as transcendent beings as
they exist outside the natural world.
_____________6. Views that God or gods exist within the natural world.
_____________7. God or gods as both transcendent and immanent.
_____________8. There is no certainty whether or not God or gods
exist.
_____________9. Simply makes no position about the existence of
God or gods.
_____________10. Rejects the reality of God or gods.
IV.
C. Traditional Theism
D. Pantheism
E. Kathenotheism
F. Nontheism
G. Agnostheism
H. Henotheism
I. Monotheism
J. Polytheism
ENUMERATION
8 KEY ELEMENTS OF RELIGIONS
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2 SET OF WORLDVIEW
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V.
ESSAY (5 POINTS)
1. Do you think studying WOLRD RELIGION helps you to see the value of religion in your personal
life? In what way has your religion helped you become a better person?
Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8