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Self Test A on Knowledge & Vocabulary associated with Choice #6  

Respond to each of the 10 multiple choice questions below by typing the number 1 to 5 of the answer you wish to select in the response box. When finished, click "process your responses".

1. Those who prefer the POLYTHEISM, ANIMISM, PAGAN  theme to the MYSTICISM theme view nature as full of many discrete spirits or deities instead of   ________________________. 

1) mind and matter          2) pluralism of substance         3) ultimate undifferentiated wholeness

4) spirit and matter           5) the Trinity 

2.  Careful reading of the MYSTICISM theme suggests that investigating its worth should begin with investigating __________________.

1) the nature of  space                      2) what matter is                     3) the reality of discrete objects   

4) what the passage of time most fundamentally represents           5) human consciousness

3. Careful reading of the POLYTHEISM, ANIMISM, PAGAN  theme suggests that gods people have worshipped can be linked to all of the following except which one?

1) special place        2) character type         3) object           4) day of the year         5) event   

4.  The MYSTICISM theme presents a characterization of a “Oneness” / mystical experience by identifying four numbered components. The word that can most appropriately be linked to the first of these numbered components is _____________.           

1) ecstatic           2) epiphany            3) ineffable             4) illusion          5) deity

5. The word ______________ can be defined or described as "a person who believes there are many gods and practices worshipping them."

1) pantheist                                  2) iconoclast                                3) animist 

4) pagan                                       5) pantheon

  

6. The word ______________ can be defined or described as "belief that all things, living or non-living, possess a spirit or soul."

1)   animism                       2)  epiphany                               3) theism   

4)   paganism                      5) dogmatism   

  

7.  The word ______________ can be defined or described as "group of gods or great people honored in a temple or building."

1)  parthenon                                    2) pantheism                   3) pantheon

4)  paternalism                                5) none of the above 

   

8. The word ______________ can be defined or described as "filled with intense, uplifting emotion."

1)  ecstatic                                      2)  ineffable                               3)  epiphany 

4)   animation                               5) optimism 

  

9.  The word ______________ can be defined or described as "peak experience associated with a manifestation of the divine or Supreme Being."

1)  epiphany                                      2) ecstatic                                3) pantheon  

4)   ineffable                                     5) mundane 

  

10.  The word ______________ can be defined or described as "an experience that can’t be expressed in words."

1)  garrulous                                  2)  ineffable                               3)   taciturn

4)  ecstatic                                      5) agnosticism 

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