| 1) You've just left the Celestial Highway and you meet Pickthank at Vanity Fair. In which classic work of devotional literature do you find yourself? |
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The Prayers and Meditations of St. Anselm
The Cloud of Unknowing
Pilgrim's Progress
City of God
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| 2) Name the great Indian work that comprises 1,330 couplets based on the first three supreme Hindu aims: dharma, artha and kama - virtue, wealth, and love, respectively: |
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The Upanishads
The R may na
The Bhagavad Gita
The Kural
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| 3) The sculptor Cellini immortalized her form, but in a classic spiritual autobiography, this saint tells her own story of profound religious transformation: |
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Margery Kempe
Julian Norwich
Joan of Arc
Teresa of Avila
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| 4) True or False: The Rig Veda is among the most important spiritual guides to the wisdom of Taoism. |
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True
False
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| 5) This holy text from the Middle East is divided into 114 sauras or chapters. What is it? |
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The Analects
The Talmud
The Koran
The Buddhacarita
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| 6) A poem written in the third millennium B.C. contains a description of a huge flood that prefigures the biblical legend of Noah. What is this epic called? |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Book of the Dead
The Conference of Birds
The Song of Roland
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| 7) This third-century BC compilation of aphorisms illustrates the Buddhist moral system, pointing out the Path of Perfection that leads to Nirvana: |
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Tao Te Ching
The Dhammapada
Questions of King Milinda
The R may na
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| 8) A collection of sayings by this sage, The Analects, was put together by his students not long after his death. Who is this wise man? |
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Buddha
Mohammed
Mahatma Ghandi
Confucius
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| 9) Traditionally, it is said that the Psalms were written by which well-known King of Israel? |
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Solomon
Saul
David
Moses
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| 10) Revelations of Divine Love accounts for the sixteen visions that appeared to a fourteenth-century recluse. Name this pious figure. |
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Walter Hilton
Julian of Norwich
St. Anselm
St. Hilary
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