- 1. Where did Western religions originate?
A) Western culture
B) Eastern culture
C) The Middle East
D) African culture
- 2. Which term is often used instead of the East and West terminology for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
A) Neopagan religions
B) Abrahamic religions
C) Hellenistic religions
D) Mystery religions
- 3. In what century was Christianity adopted as the state church of the Roman Empire?
A) Early 4th century
B) 11th century
C) 16th century
D) Late 4th century
- 4. What term largely indicates the intertwined history of Western culture and Christianity?
A) Neopaganism
B) Antiquity
C) Hellenism
D) Christendom
- 5. Which philosophy notably influenced Western Christianity?
A) Stoicism
B) Cynicism
C) Neoplatonism
D) Epicureanism
- 6. Western Christianity is largely based on which tradition of the Catholic Church?
A) Eastern Orthodoxy
B) Protestant tradition
C) Latin Church
D) Chaldean tradition
- 7. What event divided Western Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy in the 11th century?
A) The Reformation
B) The Roman imperial cult
C) The Great Schism
D) The Orientalizing period
- 8. When did Protestant traditions begin to split from the Catholic Church?
A) 19th century
B) 11th century
C) 4th century
D) 16th century
- 9. Since which century has Western religion diversified into numerous new religious movements?
A) 19th century
B) 16th century
C) 11th century
D) 4th century
- 10. Which of the following is a new religious movement mentioned as emerging since the 19th century?
A) Occultism
B) Orphism
C) Gnosticism
D) Mithraism
- 11. Out of what classical period did the West as a culture historically evolve?
A) The Orientalizing period
B) Greco-Roman classical antiquity
C) The Middle Ages
D) The Hellenistic period
- 12. What type of religions were Greek and Roman polytheism?
A) Polytheistic
B) Monotheistic
C) Atheistic
D) Pantheistic
- 13. During which period of Greek antiquity are Eastern influences evident from the earliest times?
A) The Orientalizing period
B) The Classical period
C) The Hellenistic period
D) The Roman Empire period
- 14. Which tradition was influenced by Persian culture?
A) Germanic religion
B) Mithraism
C) Latin Church tradition
D) Orphism
- 15. Which culture had an influence on mystery religions, astrology, and magic alongside Chaldean influence?
A) Egyptian
B) Greek
C) Germanic
D) Celtic
- 16. What process marginalized or overlaid the inherited traditions of native Roman religion?
A) Interpretatio graeca
B) The Great Schism
C) Neoplatonism
D) The Roman imperial cult
- 17. What evolved into a civil religion involving state ritual rather than religious faith or experience?
A) Eastern Orthodoxy
B) Early Christianity
C) The Roman imperial cult
D) Germanic religion
- 18. How did Roman ethnography describe Celtic and Germanic religion?
A) Urban and decadent
B) Modern and sophisticated
C) Monotheistic
D) Primitive
- 19. How else was Celtic and Germanic religion described by Roman ethnography alongside being primitive?
A) Influenced by Persia
B) Pure or unspoiled
C) Decadent and urban
D) Corrupted by magic
- 20. What event divided Western Christianity in the 16th century?
A) The Great Schism
B) The Renaissance
C) The Great Awakening
D) The Protestant Reformation
- 21. Which of the following are pronouncedly 'Western' forms of Christianity?
A) Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism
B) Medieval fairy-tales and magic
C) Puritanism and Evangelicalism
D) Hermeticism and Neoplatonism
- 22. Where are movements resulting from the Great Awakenings popularly practiced?
A) Asia Minor
B) United States
C) Eastern Europe
D) Latin America
- 23. For at least how long has Europe been nearly equivalent to Christian culture?
A) Three hundred years
B) A millennium and a half
C) Two millennia
D) Five hundred years
- 24. Which areas of Western civilization were guided by Christian culture?
A) Exclusively magic and occult practices
B) Only literature and agriculture
C) Only politics and trade
D) Philosophy, art, music, science, social structure, and architecture
- 25. What is Renaissance magic a resurgence of?
A) Medieval fairy-tale traditions
B) Protestant Reformation practices
C) Hermeticism and Neoplatonic varieties of the magical arts
D) Eastern Orthodox theology
- 26. Along with what movement did Renaissance magic arise in the 15th and 16th centuries CE?
A) The Great Awakening
B) The Great Schism
C) Puritanism
D) Renaissance humanism
- 27. Who highlighted the transformation in how magic was perceived and portrayed in English literature?
A) Marlowe
B) Spenser
C) C. S. Lewis
D) Shakespeare
- 28. How did medieval stories portray magic?
A) With a fantastical and fairy-like quality
B) As part of the Protestant Reformation
C) As a serious and potentially dangerous pursuit
D) As complex and tied to hidden knowledge in books
- 29. How was magic perceived during the Renaissance?
A) Irrelevant to cultural perspectives
B) Simple and fairy-like
C) Equivalent to Eastern Orthodoxy
D) More complex and tied to hidden knowledge through books and rituals
- 30. Which authors' works show the Renaissance change in the perception of magic?
A) Authors of the Great Schism
B) Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and Shakespeare
C) Leaders of the Great Awakenings
D) C. S. Lewis and historical theologians
- 31. How did Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and Shakespeare treat magic?
A) As a silly fairy-tale
B) As a serious and potentially dangerous pursuit
C) As a branch of Christian liturgy
D) As simple entertainment
- 32. Which revolution inspired the French Revolution regarding the idea of secularization?
A) Industrial Revolution
B) Glorious Revolution
C) American Revolution
D) Russian Revolution
- 33. German mediatization and the separation of church and state were part of European constitutions drawn up after which year?
A) 1914
B) 1789
C) 1815
D) 1848
- 34. What principle introduced in Western society in the early 19th century facilitated the emergence of new religious movements?
A) State religion
B) Divine right of kings
C) Mandatory secularism
D) Religious freedom
- 35. What percentage of North America was Western Christian in 2012?
A) 77.4%
B) 90%
C) 76.2%
D) 61.1%
- 36. What percentage of Latin America was Western Christian in 2011?
A) 90%
B) 79%
C) 61.1%
D) 77.4%
- 37. What percentage of European Christians are Eastern Orthodox, especially in Eastern Europe?
A) 76%
B) 35%
C) 18%
D) 46%
- 38. What percentage of European Christians are Roman Catholic?
A) 76%
B) 46%
C) 35%
D) 18%
- 39. What percentage of European Christians are Protestant?
A) 35%
B) 18%
C) 76%
D) 46%
- 40. What percentage of Australia-New Zealand was Western Christian in 2011?
A) 77.4%
B) 90%
C) 61.1%
D) 79%
- 41. What percentage of South Africa was Western Christian?
A) 79%
B) 61.1%
C) 77.4%
D) 90%
- 42. What is the second largest religion in Europe?
A) Buddhism
B) Judaism
C) Hinduism
D) Islam
- 43. What is the approximate percentage of Muslims in Europe?
A) 10%
B) 1.7%
C) 6%
D) 3%
- 44. What is the approximate percentage of Muslims in Canada?
A) 6%
B) 5%
C) 1.7%
D) 3%
- 45. What is the approximate percentage of Jews in the United States?
A) 3%
B) 5%
C) 6%
D) 1.7%
- 46. What is the percentage of irreligious people in Australia?
A) 16.4%
B) 18.2%
C) 40%
D) 22%
- 47. What is the percentage of irreligious people in New Zealand?
A) 18.2%
B) 16%
C) 22%
D) 40%
- 48. What is the percentage of irreligious people in Europe?
A) 18.2%
B) 16.4%
C) 22%
D) 40%
- 49. What is the percentage of irreligious people in the USA?
A) 16.4%
B) 22%
C) 16%
D) 18.2%
- 50. What is the percentage of irreligious people in Canada?
A) 16%
B) 22%
C) 16.4%
D) 18.2%
- 51. Approximately what percentage of the population in the Western world adheres to non-Western religions?
A) 1%
B) 15%
C) 5%
D) 25%
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