Rasmussen HUM2023 Week 5 Quiz September 2020

Question 1          Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer.                                               

Answers:              

True

False

Question 2          Which French novelist wrote the novel “Les Miserables” in 1862, which called powerful attention to the poor in France?                                

Voltaire

Rousseau

Victor Hugo

Alexandre Dumas

Question 3          The concept of “yin and yang” comes from which tradition?                                       

Answers:              

Taoism

Confucianism

Hinduism

Buddhism

Question 4          Who was the first major advocate of Stoicism?                                 

Aristippus

Socrates

Plato

Zeno

Question 5          The Dalai Lama is the leader of which segment of Buddhism?                                     

Mahayana Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism

Tantric Buddhism

Zen Buddhism

Question 6          What does the word “Zen” refer to in Zen Buddhism?                                   

Piety

Obedience

Renunciation

Meditation

Question 7 The fables of which Greek writer contain many stories and morals that stay with humanity from age to age?               

Sophocles

Herodotus

Aesop

Homer

Question 8          “The Great Spirit” is/was a concept in which society’s beliefs?                                   

Ancient Egyptians

Ancient Greeks

Native Americans

Buddhists

Question 9          Which American poet was greatly influenced by the religious thought of India?                                 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

Robert Frost

Carl Sandburg

Question 10 The concept of “Carpe Diem” is based on which theory of happiness?                                          

Answers:              

Hedonism

Epicureanism

Stoicism

Aristotle’s philosophy of happiness