- Hinduism has _______________religious text (s).
Your answer:
two
three
many
one
- Hinduism is ____________________ , which means it has many gods/goddesses.
Your answer:
monotheistic
monolistic
pluralistic
polytheistic
- The Aryans settled in the valley of the _________________river. The river is still considered holy.
Your answer:
Ganges
Indus
Danube
Mississippi
- Ganesha is the god of everything that exists and Hindus pray to him at the beginning of their prayer time. How did he get the head of an elephant?
Your answer:
Ganesha was born with an elephant head.
Shiva really wanted an elephant for a son so he mixed the strength of an elephant with the body of his son.
Pavarti, his mother granted him the wish of having an elephant head to represent strength.
His father cut off his head and later replaced it with the most availible head he could find, which was an elephant.
- Brahman, part of the Hindu triad, grew his first four heads because ______________.
Your answer:
Brahma was a god and he grew the heads because he wanted to be strong.
Branhma grew the heads so he could keep an eye on the other gods.
he wanted to keep an eye on the girl he loved. They represent the directions.
he had a bad disease which made him grow for heads, but this made him wise.
- Vishnu, the creator and strongest god, slept in the coils of a __________.
Your answer:
garden snake because flowers are important to Indian society
cobra to show strength and to show he wasn't affected by the poison.
a python to show his emenies he could crush them.
rattlesnake to scare away his ememies.
- A famous Hindu which lead his country to independence during this the mid 20th century (1900's, was ____________
Your answer:
Gandhi.
Patanjali.
Nehru.
Mogul.
- Hindus often were influenced by other religions but they never swayed from their religion. Two religious groups that tried to dominate the Hindus were the ____________________.
Your answer:
Muslims and Christians.
Zen and Muslims
Christians and Jews.
Buddists and Shintos.
- The caste system was ___________________.
Your answer:
a form of government which made the people follow traditional values.
a way to keep order in the indian society by telling people they were born into certain jobs.
not begun until the British were in power.
the way of making a mold of a person which made them rest in a certain position.
- Hindus believed the scholar caste came from _____________________.
Your answer:
the god's hands
the mouth of the god.
came from the god's thighs.
didn't come from any part of a god.
- Hindus believed the warrior caste came from ______________________.
Your answer:
the god's hands
the god's arms.
came from the god's thighs.
the mouth of the god.
- Hindus believed the untouchable caste ______________________.
Your answer:
came from the god's thighs.
didn't come from any part of a god.
came from the mouth of the god.
came from the god's hands
- Hindus believed the merchant caste came from _______________.
Your answer:
didn't come from any part of a god.
came from the god's thighs.
the mouth of the god.
the god's hands
- Hindus believed the laborer caste came from ______________.
Your answer:
came from the god's thighs.
the mouth of the god.
the god's hands
didn't come from any part of a god.
- If you were a good person you might rise to the next caste level. This showed you had "good__________", if you had "bad___________" you would go down a caste level.
Your answer:
bhakti
karma.
yama
niyama
- If a person dies, Hindus believe they will be reborn. The word that means to be reborn is _______________.
Your answer:
rejuvenated.
reincarnated.
incinerated.
placated.
- The language of the Aryans was __________. Gandhi often used words from this language to represent ideas for his teachings.
Your answer:
english.
sanskit.
arabic.
swaheli.
- The present day country that broke away from India, after India got her independence was ______________. This break-away country also was wanted to be Islamic instead of Hindu.
Your answer:
Indonesia.
Iran.
China.
Pakistan.
- Hinduism is a ________________.
Your answer:
warlike and hostile religion.
religion that tries to convert of people's faiths into Hinduism.
religion that believes in ceremonies and rigid rules.
peaceful, non-agressive and tolerant religion.
- Vishu, upon his 9th reincarnation became __________________. Later this god became a whole different religion.
Your answer:
Buddha
Brama
Shiva
Vishnu