Unit 4

5 Written Questions

1. One of the two main ethnic groups within the Jewish culture. This branch eventually settled in Central Europe after having been driven out of Jerusalem early in the first millenium A.D
2. a religion with more than one god
3. A group of Islamic religion that believes that its religious leader should be chosen based on heredity.
4. lowest class of people in the caste system of Hinduism, do all the dirty work of society
5. the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females

5 Matching Questions

1. Animistic Religion
2. Ethnic Religion
3. Enfranchisement
4. Brahman
5. Traditional religion

1. a a religion that has originality and is not modernized
2. b a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
3. c the belief that inanimate objects, such as hills, trees, rocks, rivers, and other elements of natural landscape, possess souls and can help or hinder human efforts on Earth
4. d a religion identified with a particular ethnic group and largely exclusive to it
5. e the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy
   1. zionism
   2. female infanticide
   3. Religious fundamentalism
   4. Reincarnation
2. The boundaries between the world's major faiths.
   1. Longevity gap
   2. interfaith boundary
   3. intrafaith boundary
   4. Reincarnation
3. the mass expulsion and killing of one ethic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area
   1. Reincarnation
   2. Secularism
   3. ethnic cleansing
   4. Ethnic Religion
4. Boundaries within a single major faith.
   1. Brahman
   2. interfaith boundary
   3. Enfranchisement
   4. intrafaith boundary
5. the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel
   1. diaspora
   2. jihad
   3. karma
   4. gender

5 True/False Questions

1. Monotheistic Religion → a religion with more than one god

   True        False

2. Sephardim → The belief in material things instead of religious things.

   True        False

3. sunni → a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad

   True        False

4. female genitalia mutilation → the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females

   True        False

5. Reincarnation → embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)

   True        False