Remedial Exam - HUMSS2111
Remedial Exam - HUMSS2111
Remedial Exam - HUMSS2111
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Remedial Exam
Question 1 True or False: The Theravada tradition sees Shakyamuni Buddha as central.
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b. False
c. True
Question 2 The Buddhist tradition which regards itself as “great” both in its interpretations of the Buddha’s teaching and in its
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Marked out of
1.00 Select one:
a. Vajrayana
b. Mahayana
c. Vedic
d. Theravada
d. the belief that righteous acts and deeds are ways to be saved on the Day of Judgment
The correct answer is: the belief in one God as the Creator and the Divine Ruler
Question 4
A religious literate person needs to understand the following except:
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d. the diversity of religious beliefs, traditions and institutions among and within religions
The correct answer is: the truth about God and the ways to be saved
Question 5 True or False: The Theravada tradition is more flexible about the orthodoxy of scriptures.
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b. True
c. False
Question 6
Which of the following is/are not included in the five precepts at the foundation of all morality?
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b. Not cheating
c. Not lying
d. Not stealing
Drives Choose...
Emotion Choose...
Motivation Choose...
→ j. Autonomy,
Needs
→ Goals,
Intrinsic Motivation
→ Positive feedback,
Emotion
→ Self-actualization,
Extrinsic Motivators
→ food,
Motivation
→ State of tension
Question 8 Massive structural violence is still evident today but now labeled as
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b. Injustice
c. Prejudice
d. Discrimination
Question 9
True or False: Terrorist attacks are not part of Islam.
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b. True. Islam is all about love. Nothing else. Acts like these are not supported by the original texts of Islam and
therefore shouldn’t be considered part of Islam.
c. False. Radical Muslims committed terrorist attacks. They may not represent classical Islam or Islam in its entirety
buy they show how religions are interpreted and reinterpreted in different time and space contexts.
The correct answer is: False. Radical Muslims committed terrorist attacks. They may not represent classical Islam or
Islam in its entirety buy they show how religions are interpreted and reinterpreted in different time and space contexts.
Marked out of She believed that the need for security, not for sex, is the prime motive of human existence. Choose...
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He is referred to as the father of American personality psychology. Choose...
He believed that we are all born with the raw ingredients of a fulfilling life – we simply need
the right condition to thrive. Each person is born with natural capacities for growth and Choose...
fulfillment.
He concluded that archetypes emerge in art, literature, religion and dreams Choose...
→ Gordon Allport,
He is referred to as the father of American personality psychology.
→ Abraham Maslow,
According ___________self-actualization is the motivation to develop one’s full potential as human being. A person at
this optimal level of existence would be tolerant of others, have a gentle sense of humor, and be likely to pursue the
greater good.
→ Carl Rogers,
He believed that we are all born with the raw ingredients of a fulfilling life – we simply need the right condition to thrive.
Each person is born with natural capacities for growth and fulfillment.
→ Carl Jung,
He concluded that archetypes emerge in art, literature, religion and dreams
→ Karen Horney
The correct answer is: It is shaped by historical movements and cultural contexts.
Question 12
Theology is the academic study of religious beliefs, behaviors and institutions.
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b. True
Question 13 An Islamic stream of interpretation emphasizing the interior path of mystical love and knowledge of God.
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b. Catholic Reformation
c. Sufism
d. Pentecostalism
Question 14 Which is the best explanation to why radical Muslims commit acts of terrorism?
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b. They are caused by the rise of arms. The more gun, artillery, and other military weapons are created, the more
these things happen.
d. These acts are both political and religious. They are political responses to the atrocities of Western governments
towards Muslim countries and are also seen by those who commit them as expressions of faith.
The correct answer is: These acts are both political and religious. They are political responses to the atrocities of Western
governments towards Muslim countries and are also seen by those who commit them as expressions of faith.
Question 15 Why are Muslim families in France facing difficulties after the Paris attacks?
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b. Muslim families faced starvation after governments cut food supply for them.
The correct answer is: Children face discrimination in schools and in their communities
Question 16
The phrases, “Buddhists encourages internal peace.” or “Islam encourages violence.” are problematic and even wrong.
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Marked out of
1.00 Select one:
a. People’s behaviors in the 21st century are more influenced by media and not by religion anymore.
d. No generalizations can be made because of the vast diversity of beliefs and interpretations of sect/branches
within a religion
The correct answer is: No generalizations can be made because of the vast diversity of beliefs and interpretations of
sect/branches within a religion
b. True
Question 18 A new movement to reform the corrupt practices within the Catholic Church.
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b. Pentecostalism
c. Catholic Reformation
d. Salafim
Question 19 One assumption of the cultural studies approach is that the method is discrete.
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b. True
Question 20
Match Type
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Marked out of This is the harsh internal judge of our behavior. It is reflected in what we often call
5.00 conscience and evaluates the morality of our behavior. Choose...
This is the Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality. It
abides by reali Choose...
These are tactics that the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. Choose...
This is Jung’s name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared
by all human beings because of their common ancestral past. Choose...
→ Id,
It consists of unconscious drives and is the individual’s reservoir of sexual energy. It works for the pleasure principle.
→ Superego,
This is the Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality. It abides by reali
→ Collective unconscious,
These are tactics that the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
→ D. Ego,
This is Jung’s name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared by all human beings because of
their common ancestral past.
→ Defense Mechanisms
b. After the recent Paris terrorist attacks, there was a 300% increase of hate crimes against Muslims in Britain.
c. A Muslim employer refused to accept a qualified applicant because he is a Catholic and it would affect their
working relationship.
d. A store clerk who let a Muslim customer purchase despite the manager’s order to block Muslims from their store
after bombing happened in their community.
The correct answer is: A store clerk who let a Muslim customer purchase despite the manager’s order to block Muslims
from their store after bombing happened in their community.
Marked out of This is characterized more likely than others to engage in social activities, experience
5 00 Choose...
tit d t f i i lif d f i i
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gratitude, strong sense of meaning in life, and are more forgiving.
. This is related to altruism and generosity, to reports of religious faith and to more
Choose...
satisfying romantic relationships.
This is related to altruism and generosity, to reports of religious faith and to more
Choose...
satisfying romantic relationships.
.It is a key factor in a variety of life domains. Researchers have found that it is positively
related to high school and college student’s grade point averages, is organized, careful Choose...
and disciplined.
The correct answer is: This is characterized more likely than others to engage in social activities, experience gratitude,
strong sense of meaning in life, and are more forgiving. → Neuroticism, . This is related to altruism and generosity, to
reports of religious faith and to more satisfying romantic relationships. → Extraversion, This is related to altruism and
generosity, to reports of religious faith and to more satisfying romantic relationships. → Conscientiousness, .It is a key
factor in a variety of life domains. Researchers have found that it is positively related to high school and college student’s
grade point averages, is organized, careful and disciplined. → Openness to Experience, The tendency to worry and
experience negative emotions. → Agreeableness
Question 23 Monasticism was the movement emphasizing the forgiveness of and grace of loving God.
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b. False
Question 24
The ideal spiritual model of Theravada Buddhism who attains nirvana and have perfected their discipline such that
Not answered defilements and desires are extinguished
Marked out of
1.00 Select one:
a. Dalai Lama
b. Buddha
c. Arahants
d. Bodhisattva
b. True
Question 26
Muslims claim that Muhammad is the final prophet of God.
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b. False
The correct answer is: True
Question 27 True or False: Galtung’s typologies of violence present the idea of violence being inevitable.
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b. False
d. True
Question 28
Religions are internally diverse.
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b. False
b. Cultural Violence
c. Traditional Violence
d. Structural Violence
Question 30 You had seen your friend’s post in facebook about how he hates all Muslims because they are all terrorists. What will you
Not answered do as a religious literate person?
Marked out of
1.00 Select one:
a. Tell him to stop generalizing. Though Muslim fundamentalists were behind in recent terrorist attacks, not all
Muslims are Muslim fundamentalists.
c. Understand where he is coming from and that his post maybe justifiable because many people are killed during
terrorist attacks.
d. Accept the fact that in reality, we have our own biases towards our religion.
The correct answer is: Tell him to stop generalizing. Though Muslim fundamentalists were behind in recent terrorist
attacks, not all Muslims are Muslim fundamentalists.
Question 31 To be completely unbiased in understanding world religions may not be achieved in reality, what then can be the best
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Marked out of
1.00 Select one:
a Can be biased towards his/her own religion but should be open and sincere in understanding other religions
a. Can be biased towards his/her own religion but should be open and sincere in understanding other religions
b. Firm in his/her conclusion that their religion is the only true religion but then respects other religions
d. Can be biased towards his/her religion but critically sees the similarities and contrasts among the different
religions
The correct answer is: Can be biased towards his/her own religion but should be open and sincere in understanding other
religions
The correct answer is: The dislike or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force
Marked out of The emotional nature of stressful events is lessened at times by reducing it to cold logic. Choose...
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The person expresses an unconscious wish in a socially valued way, such as a boxer who
channeled his aggressive drive in the ring. Choose...
This is the most primitive defense mechanism, in which the ego simply refuses to
acknowledge anxiety- producing realities. Choose...
→ B. Repression,
The person expresses an unconscious wish in a socially valued way, such as a boxer who channeled his aggressive
drive in the ring.
→ Sublimation,
This is the most primitive defense mechanism, in which the ego simply refuses to acknowledge anxiety- producing
realities.
→ Denial,
It is the most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism. It pushes unacceptable id impulses back into the
unconscious mind.
→ Displacement,
This defense mechanism involves directing unacceptable impulses at a less threatening target.
→ Intellectualization
Question 34 The members of the LGBT community being deprived of certain civil rights is a clear manifestation of
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b. Cultural Violence
c. Direct Violence
d. Structural Violence
Question 35
Cultural studies primarily concerns in the following except
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The correct answer is: Understanding about ritual practices and what scriptures say
Question 36 One assumption of the cultural studies approach is that the method is discrete.
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b. False
Question 37
Religions evolve through time and across places
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b. False
Question 38 Relativism presumes that all knowledge claims are equally valid.
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b. False
Question 39 True or False: The nature of method of cultural studies approach to religion is multi and inter-disciplinary.
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b. False
c. True
Question 40 What is the main difference between a theologian and religious scholar?
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b. A theologian uses a Biblical approach; a religious scholar uses a scientific and/or academic approach in
understanding world religions
c. A theologian do not require historical and cultural knowledge of the religion he/she studies; a religious scholar
shall understand the historical and cultural contexts of world religions
d. A theologian is naturally a believer of the religion he studies; a religious scholar is a nonbeliever of any religion
The correct answer is: A theologian is biased toward a particular faith; a religious scholar is expected to be objective in
understanding world religions
Question 41
A movement to return the era of the First Muslim Community.
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b. Sufism
c. Salafim
d. Catholic Reformation
Marked out of This requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain
5.00 both positive and negative consequences Choose...
Conflict in which the individual must choose between two positive goals
of approximately equal value. Choose...
→ Approach-approach conflict,
This can be thought of as any event that strains or exceeds an individual’s ability to cope.
→ Approach-avoidance conflict,
Conflict in which achieving a positive goal will produce a negative outcome as well.
→ Stress,
Conflict in which individual must choose between two negative outcomes of approximately equal value.
→ E. Multiple approach-avoidance conflict,
Conflict in which the individual must choose between two positive goals of approximately equal value.
→ Avoidance-avoidance conflict
Question 43 The type of violence that represents the systematic ways in which some groups are hindered from equal access to
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Marked out of
1.00 Select one:
a. Direct Violence
b. Cultural Violence
c. Indirect Violence
d. Structural Violence
Question 44
Jews believe that the words of their sacred book were originally revealed by the Angel Gabriel.
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b. True
Question 45 What is one possible explanation of why most victims of Muslim hate crimes are women?
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b. Most women Muslims perpetrate the terrorist attacks. They hold the highest positions among terrorist circles.
d. Muslim women are attractive and are physically weaker so those who attack them are encouraged to do so.
The correct answer is: Most women are vulnerable to violent attacks and their Muslim identity is more obvious because
they wear a headdress.
b. False
Question 47 Muslims claim that Muhammad is only a messenger and not a divine being.
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b. True
The correct answer is: True
The correct answer is: shared meanings we make and encounter in our everyday lives
Question 49 An energetic devotional reform movement, emphasizing the forgiveness and grace of a loving God
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b. Methodism
c. Monasticism
d. Baptism
Question 50
True or False: The recognition that all knowledge claims are situated is a manifestation of relativism whereby all
Not answered interpretations are considered to be equally valid.
Marked out of
1.00 Select one:
a. False
c. True
b. Bodhisattva
c. Buddha
d. Bhikshunis
Question 52
In Arabic, the word islam means called out.
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b. True
The correct answer is: False
Question 53 The Buddhist tradition which regards itself as the most faithful to the teachings that have been passed down through the
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Marked out of
1.00 Select one:
a. Vajrayana
b. Theravada
c. Vedic
d. Mahayana
Question 54 Muslims claim that Muhammad is only a messenger and not a divine being.
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b. True
Question 55 What action/s shall be provided to attain religious literacy in a national scale?
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b. Enforce the law protecting victims of hate crimes and violence against religious sectors
The correct answers are: Include a curriculum on World Religions from a nonsectarian perspective in public education,
Enforce the law protecting victims of hate crimes and violence against religious sectors
b. True
b. True
d. Most people have diverted their belief towards science than in religion.
The correct answer is: The influences of religions in human society remain potent in the 21st century.
c. understanding the truth about God and what one needs to be saved
The correct answer is: understanding other religious beliefs, traditions and institutions in a scientific approach
Question 60
The assumptions of the cultural studies approach in understanding religion are the following except
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d. All forms of inquiry are interpretations which are filtered through particular lenses
The correct answer is: Culture norms represent uncontested absolute, universal truths
Question 61 A Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Christian community
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b. Diaspora
c. Methodism
d. Baptism
Question 62 The members of the LGBT community being viewed as ‘immoral’ by some Christians is a clear manifestation of
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b. Structural Violence
c. Direct Violence
d. Indirect Violence
The correct answer is: Cultural Violence
Question 63 A study of religion in a devotional perspective presumes religious legitimacy of knowledge claims.
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b. True
Question 64 Religious traditions and practices of sect/branches within a religion are uniform
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b. False
b. False
Marked out of Changes occur before the emotion and actually create the feelings we label as
5.00 an emotion Choose...
The body functions best at a specific level of arousal, which varies from one
individual to another Choose...
Motivated behavior as being pulled by the incentive or goal; the larger or more
powerful the incentive, the stronger the pull Choose...
→ Drive-reduction theory,
The body functions best at a specific level of arousal, which varies from one individual to another
→ Incentive Theory,
Theory that views motivated behavior as directed toward the reduction of a physiological need.
J L Th
→ James-Lange Theory,
Motivated behavior as being pulled by the incentive or goal; the larger or more powerful the incentive, the stronger the
pull
→ Cognitive-consistency theories
Question 67 Muslims generally consider translations of Quran to different languages to be interpretations and not the Quran itself.
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b. False