Monday, May 12, 2008

Test yourself

For the last meeting of Cultures of the Religious Right I invited students to submit questions for a final quiz (otherwise I'd come up with questions of my own). We ended up with a quiz which, if not always seriously, touches on virtually everything we've read and discussed. Here are some of the questions.

1. What is the "Social Gospel," as it was understood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
A) Christians should engage in society functions for the chance to evangelize over hors d'oeuvres
B) Christians must engage in social work as Jesus was primarily a teacher of ethics
C) Christians must engage in social work because the Second Coming will only occur after the human race has rid itself of social evils through its own effort
D) Christianity should be spread by community sing-alongs

7. Methodism had roots in what movement on the European continent:
A) Pietism
B) the Jesuits
C) the Holiness movement
D) The English Act of Supremacy

10. Dispensational premillenialism asserts that:
A) The millennium precedes the Second Coming
B) The Second Coming precedes the millennium
C) The millennium is dispensed seven times
D) The Second Coming takes the place of the millennium.

12. Why was Jerry Falwell criticized by other fundamentalist leaders when he sought accreditation for Liberty Bible College?
A) They disagreed with the understanding of Christian ethics taught at the college
B) They were angered by Falwell's move into the secular mainstream out of his former separatism
C) They were angered that Liberty Bible College had founded a museum on evolution
D) The credit belongs to God alone.

16. The Scopes Trial of 1925 in Tennessee was brought upon by what "immediate issue":
A) Disgruntled student John Scopes was upset that his biology teacher's curriculum included no mention of God or Genesis.
B) Substitute biology teacher John Scopes taught evolution to his class even though it was illegal at the time.
C) Biology teacher John Scopes was discovered to be having same-sex relations with a fellow teacher.
D) The will of celebrity John Scopes left the vaudeville star’s entire estate to his monkey, Darwin.

20. The "wall of separation" between church and state appears:
A) in the Bible
B) in the Constitution
C) in the Bill of Rights
D) none of these

25. Who criticized what in these terms: "a God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross"?
A) Martin Luther—the Counterreformation
B) H. Richard Niebuhr—liberal Protestantism
C) Reinhold Niebuhr—fundamentalism
D) Mark Driscoll—the emerging church

26. The parable of the good Samaritan answers the question:
A) Who is the chosen of God?
B) What do I owe strangers?
C) How do I inherit eternal life?
D) Who is my neighbor?


(Answers: 1C, 7A, 10B, 12B, 16C, 20D, 25B, 26D)