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Question 1Foundations of Worldview Analysis

In worldview analysis, which term names the foundational, often pre-theoretical commitments that shape how a person interprets evidence before any argument begins?

  1. Inferences
  2. Presuppositions Correct answer.
  3. Hypotheses
  4. Conclusions

Explanation

Presuppositions are the background commitments a person brings to reasoning, operating before explicit argumentation. Conclusions and inferences are downstream products of reasoning, while hypotheses are tentative proposals tested within a framework.

Question 2Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A worldview is often described as functioning like a pair of glasses rather than like a list of propositions. What does this metaphor emphasize?

  1. That worldviews are purely emotional reactions
  2. That worldviews are consciously memorized statements
  3. That worldviews shape perception before reflection Correct answer.
  4. That worldviews can be discarded without consequence

Explanation

The glasses metaphor highlights that a worldview conditions how reality appears to a person prior to deliberate reflection. It stresses pre-reflective shaping of perception, not memorized content or mere emotion.

Question 3Foundations of Worldview Analysis

Which set of questions most directly identifies the core components analysts typically examine in a worldview?

  1. What is real, what is good, who am I, and where is history going Correct answer.
  2. Which language, which dialect, and which script
  3. Who is asking, how often, and with what funding
  4. How fast, how far, and how heavy

Explanation

Worldview analysis conventionally probes metaphysics, ethics, identity and destiny, which the second option summarizes. The other options concern methodology, language or measurement rather than worldview structure.

Question 4Foundations of Worldview Analysis

The branch of philosophy concerned with what exists and what reality is ultimately like is called:

  1. Ontology Correct answer.
  2. Epistemology
  3. Teleology
  4. Axiology

Explanation

Ontology is the study of being and the structure of reality, making it the metaphysical subdiscipline at issue. Epistemology concerns knowledge, axiology concerns value, and teleology concerns ends or purposes.

Question 5Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A student claims that all beliefs are equally valid because each person's perspective is true for them. Which worldview position does this most closely express?

  1. Relativism Correct answer.
  2. Determinism
  3. Dualism
  4. Critical realism

Explanation

Relativism holds that truth or validity depends on the individual or culture, which matches the student's claim. Realism affirms mind-independent truth, determinism concerns causation, and dualism concerns two kinds of substance.

Question 6Foundations of Worldview Analysis

Which term describes the study of how we know and what justifies a claim to know?

  1. Cosmology
  2. Epistemology Correct answer.
  3. Ethics
  4. Aesthetics

Explanation

Epistemology examines knowledge, belief and justification, which is exactly the study described. Cosmology concerns the origin and structure of the universe, while ethics and aesthetics concern value domains.

Question 7Foundations of Worldview Analysis

In worldview analysis, a 'lived' or operative worldview is distinguished from a 'professed' worldview because the former refers to:

  1. The beliefs a person states in formal settings
  2. The commitments actually guiding a person's choices Correct answer.
  3. The official doctrine of a religious institution
  4. The logical system published by a philosopher

Explanation

Operative worldview means the commitments actually driving behavior, which may diverge from what is verbally professed. Professed worldviews are the stated beliefs, so the distinction turns on enacted versus declared commitment.

Question 8Foundations of Worldview Analysis

Which pairing correctly matches a worldview component with the question it answers?

  1. Ontology - What is ultimately real? Correct answer.
  2. Epistemology - What is morally right?
  3. Teleology - How do we acquire knowledge?
  4. Axiology - What is ultimately real?

Explanation

Ontology asks what is ultimately real, so that pairing is correct. Axiology concerns value, epistemology concerns knowledge, and teleology concerns purpose or ends.

Question 9Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A researcher argues that a worldview should be assessed by its internal coherence, its fit with experience, and its explanatory power. Which approach to worldview evaluation does this represent?

  1. Evaluating by emotional comfort only
  2. Evaluating by popularity alone
  3. Evaluating by multiple rational criteria Correct answer.
  4. Evaluating by institutional authority only

Explanation

Coherence, experiential fit and explanatory scope are standard rational criteria used together, which is a multi-criteria evaluation. The other options each reduce evaluation to a single non-rational or external factor.

Question 10Foundations of Worldview Analysis

When a worldview is described as 'self-referential,' analysts mean that it:

  1. Requires no justification at all
  2. Makes claims that also apply to itself Correct answer.
  3. Avoids any claim about reality
  4. Applies only to other cultures

Explanation

Self-referential worldviews make claims whose scope includes the worldview itself, such as claims about how all beliefs are formed. This raises consistency questions, since the view must satisfy its own standard.

Question 11Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A claim that 'every truth claim is culturally constructed' is pressed by a critic who asks whether that claim is itself culturally constructed. What is the critic testing?

  1. The claim's historical origin
  2. The claim's empirical sample size
  3. The claim's self-consistency Correct answer.
  4. The claim's aesthetic appeal

Explanation

The critic applies the claim's own principle to the claim itself, which tests self-consistency. If all truth claims are constructed, the principle itself would be merely constructed, threatening its universal force.

Question 12Foundations of Worldview Analysis

Which distinction best captures the difference between a worldview's 'content' and its 'function'?

  1. Content is what it asserts; function is what it does for the holder Correct answer.
  2. Content is emotional; function is intellectual
  3. Content is temporary; function is permanent
  4. Content is public; function is always secret

Explanation

Content refers to the substantive claims a worldview makes, while function refers to the role it plays, such as orienting identity or guiding action. The other options impose contrasts that do not define the distinction.

Question 13Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A person says, 'I believe in objective moral values, but I live as though morality is purely a matter of taste.' In worldview terms, this is best described as:

  1. A consistent worldview
  2. A tension between professed and operative belief Correct answer.
  3. A complete absence of worldview
  4. A purely linguistic confusion

Explanation

The stated belief and the enacted behavior diverge, which is a tension between professed and operative worldview. Consistency would require the profession and the practice to align.

Question 14Foundations of Worldview Analysis

Which question belongs most properly to axiology rather than to ontology?

  1. What is the structure of space and time?
  2. What kinds of things exist?
  3. What makes a life worth living? Correct answer.
  4. What is the relation of mind to body?

Explanation

Axiology concerns value, and the worth of a life is a value question, so it belongs there. The other questions concern existence, spacetime structure or mind-body relations, which are ontological.

Question 15Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A worldview analyst distinguishes 'creation myths' from 'scientific cosmologies' but argues both answer the same human question. Which question is most plausibly shared?

  1. Which statistical test is appropriate?
  2. How do markets allocate goods?
  3. How should laboratory equipment be calibrated?
  4. Where does the cosmos come from and what is its status? Correct answer.

Explanation

Both mythic and scientific accounts address origins and the status of the cosmos, which is a worldview-level question. The other options are technical or economic questions that do not overlap with origin narratives.

Question 16Foundations of Worldview Analysis

The claim that human beings are composed of a material body and an immaterial soul is a form of:

  1. Pantheism
  2. Dualism Correct answer.
  3. Monism
  4. Nihilism

Explanation

Dualism posits two basic kinds of reality, such as body and soul, which matches the claim. Monism affirms one kind, pantheism identifies God with the world, and nihilism denies meaning or value.

Question 17Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A worldview that treats human freedom as an illusion produced by prior physical causes is best labeled:

  1. Libertarian free will
  2. Indeterminism
  3. Compatibilism
  4. Hard determinism Correct answer.

Explanation

Hard determinism holds that determinism is true and free will is therefore illusory, exactly as described. Compatibilism reconciles freedom with determinism, libertarianism affirms free will, and indeterminism denies universal determinism.

Question 18Foundations of Worldview Analysis

Which pair of worldview questions is most directly concerned with teleology?

  1. What is a cause? and What is an effect?
  2. What is beautiful? and What is pleasant?
  3. What is real? and What can we know?
  4. Does history have a goal? and What is a human life for? Correct answer.

Explanation

Teleology concerns ends, purposes and goals, which the questions about history's goal and a life's purpose express. The other pairs concern metaphysics, aesthetics or causation rather than purpose.

Question 19Foundations of Worldview Analysis

An analyst notes that a worldview 'totalizes' experience by integrating facts, values and identity into one framework. What does totalizing mean in this context?

  1. That the worldview seeks to integrate all of experience into a unified account Correct answer.
  2. That the worldview is numerically exhaustive
  3. That the worldview is politically totalitarian
  4. That the worldview rejects all integration

Explanation

Totalizing here means offering an integrative framework that binds facts, values and identity together. It is a claim about scope and integration, not about political systems or numerical completeness.

Question 20Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A critic says a worldview is 'unfalsifiable.' What does this charge typically mean in worldview analysis?

  1. Its claims are too complicated to state
  2. Its claims have been proven true
  3. Its claims are universally accepted
  4. Its claims cannot be tested against any possible experience Correct answer.

Explanation

Unfalsifiability means no possible experience could count against the claims, so they resist empirical testing. Being proven, complex or widely accepted does not capture that methodological criticism.

Question 21Foundations of Worldview Analysis

Which situation best illustrates the 'hermeneutic circle' in worldview interpretation?

  1. Reading a single sentence in isolation from any context
  2. Translating a text without knowledge of its language
  3. Understanding parts of a text through the whole and the whole through its parts Correct answer.
  4. Memorizing a list of doctrines without interpretation

Explanation

The hermeneutic circle describes reciprocal interpretation, where parts inform the whole and the whole informs the parts. Isolated reading, rote memorization or uninformed translation do not exhibit that reciprocal structure.

Question 22Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A thinker argues that reason itself depends on a worldview framework, so no worldview can be judged by a neutral standard. Which response most directly challenges this claim on its own terms?

  1. Asserting that the thinker is popular
  2. Claiming that frameworks are irrelevant to reasoning
  3. Appealing to the thinker's cultural background
  4. Noting that the claim presupposes a neutral standard by which frameworks are judged Correct answer.

Explanation

The claim that no neutral standard exists is itself a universal claim about standards, which appears to presuppose the very neutrality it denies. Pointing out this performative tension challenges the claim internally rather than externally.

Question 23Foundations of Worldview Analysis

In worldview comparison, the principle of 'charitable interpretation' requires the analyst to:

  1. Treat all positions as equally true
  2. Ignore the historical context of a position entirely
  3. Reject any position that conflicts with the analyst's own
  4. Adopt the strongest available reading of a position before criticizing it Correct answer.

Explanation

Charitable interpretation means reconstructing a position in its strongest form so criticism targets the best version. It does not require agreement, nor does it license ignoring context or treating all views as true.

Question 24Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A worldview holds that mind and matter are two aspects of a single underlying reality rather than two separate substances. This position is best classified as:

  1. Property dualism
  2. Substance dualism
  3. Pluralism
  4. Neutral monism Correct answer.

Explanation

Neutral monism treats mind and matter as aspects of one neutral reality, matching the description. Substance dualism posits two substances, property dualism two kinds of properties in one substance, and pluralism many basic kinds.

Question 25Foundations of Worldview Analysis

An analyst claims that a worldview's 'plausibility structures' are social rather than purely logical. What is being asserted?

  1. That social structures are irrelevant to belief
  2. That beliefs are sustained by social networks of support and reinforcement Correct answer.
  3. That logic plays no role in any belief system
  4. That plausibility is a purely biological trait

Explanation

Plausibility structures refer to the social relationships and communities that make beliefs seem credible and sustainable. The claim is about social support for belief, not the elimination of logic or a biological reduction.

Question 26Foundations of Worldview Analysis

In worldview analysis, the term 'cosmology' refers most directly to a worldview's account of which of the following?

  1. The origin, structure, and destiny of the universe Correct answer.
  2. The criteria for beautiful and sublime art
  3. The nature and ground of moral obligation
  4. The rules of valid inference and evidence

Explanation

Cosmology is the component of a worldview that answers questions about the universe as a whole: where it came from, what it is made of, and where it is heading. It is distinguished from epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, which address knowledge, obligation, and beauty respectively.

Question 27Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A worldview analyst asks, 'What is ultimately real, and what kinds of things exist?' This question belongs most properly to which branch of worldview content?

  1. Epistemology
  2. Ontology Correct answer.
  3. Axiology
  4. Teleology

Explanation

Ontology is the branch of worldview content concerned with being: what exists, what is fundamental, and what categories of things there are. The question about what is ultimately real is the classic ontological question, whereas epistemology concerns knowledge, axiology concerns value, and teleology concerns purpose or ends.

Question 28Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A student says, 'I am a committed materialist, but when I face a difficult decision I pray for guidance.' In worldview analysis, this discrepancy is best described as a tension between which two things?

  1. A plausibility structure and a paradigm
  2. A professed worldview and an operative worldview Correct answer.
  3. An ontology and an epistemology
  4. A cosmology and an eschatology

Explanation

A professed worldview is what a person explicitly avows, while an operative worldview is what actually shapes their practice and instincts. The student's stated materialism conflicts with a prayer practice that implies reliance on a transcendent agent, so the tension is between profession and operation.

Question 29Foundations of Worldview Analysis

An analyst claims that a worldview's 'plausibility structure' is social rather than purely logical. Which statement best captures what is being asserted?

  1. A worldview's credibility depends entirely on the private experiences of isolated individuals.
  2. A worldview seems credible largely because a community reinforces it through shared practices and institutions. Correct answer.
  3. A worldview is credible when its claims cannot be tested against any evidence.
  4. A worldview is credible only if its propositions can be formalized in a deductive system.

Explanation

The concept of a plausibility structure, associated with Peter Berger, holds that what counts as believable is sustained by social arrangements such as rituals, institutions, and conversation partners. Calling it social rather than purely logical means credibility is supported by communal reinforcement, not only by formal argument.

Question 30Foundations of Worldview Analysis

A thinker argues that every worldview is adopted on the basis of pre-theoretical commitments that cannot themselves be justified without circularity, and concludes that no worldview can be rationally preferred over another. Which response best identifies the flaw in this conclusion?

  1. It assumes that all worldviews are equally coherent, which is an empirical claim the argument never establishes.
  2. It confuses the origin of a belief with its truth, and therefore wrongly denies that any belief can be true.
  3. It relies on the principle of non-contradiction, which is itself a worldview commitment and so cannot be used in argument.
  4. It infers that no worldview is rationally preferable from the premise that none is justified without some pre-theoretical starting point, which does not follow. Correct answer.

Explanation

The argument moves from 'every worldview rests on unproven starting points' to 'no worldview is rationally preferable,' but that inference is invalid: starting points can be compared for coherence, explanatory power, and fit with experience. The flaw is the leap from universal fallibility of foundations to total rational indifference among worldviews.

Question 31Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

In Theravada Buddhism, which set of teachings is regarded as the direct record of the Buddha's discourses and is the second division of the Pali Canon?

  1. The Mahayana sutras
  2. The Abhidhamma Pitaka
  3. The Vinaya Pitaka
  4. The Sutta Pitaka Correct answer.

Explanation

The Pali Canon has three baskets: Vinaya (monastic discipline), Sutta (discourses), and Abhidhamma (systematic doctrine). The Sutta Pitaka collects the Buddha's sermons and dialogues and is the principal source for Theravada doctrine and practice.

Question 32Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

Which concept in Christian theology refers to the doctrine that God became human in the person of Jesus Christ?

  1. Incarnation Correct answer.
  2. Sanctification
  3. Atonement
  4. Justification

Explanation

Incarnation comes from Latin for 'enfleshing' and names the claim that the eternal Word assumed human nature in Jesus. Atonement concerns reconciliation for sin, while sanctification and justification describe the believer's moral and forensic standing before God.

Question 33Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

The Shahada, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, expresses which core affirmation?

  1. That almsgiving purifies wealth and purges greed
  2. That there is no god but God and Muhammad is God's messenger Correct answer.
  3. That fasting during Ramadan expiates past sins
  4. That pilgrimage to Mecca is obligatory once in a lifetime

Explanation

The Shahada is the confession of faith: there is no deity but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God. Reciting it sincerely is the entry into Islam, and the other pillars presuppose this confession.

Question 34Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

In Hindu thought, which term denotes the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that practitioners seek to escape?

  1. Samsara Correct answer.
  2. Dharma
  3. Moksha
  4. Karma

Explanation

Samsara is the beginningless round of rebirth driven by karma, and liberation from it is the central soteriological aim of most Hindu schools. Moksha names that liberation itself rather than the cycle.

Question 35Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

Which festival commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and is celebrated with a Seder meal?

  1. Passover Correct answer.
  2. Sukkot
  3. Shavuot
  4. Yom Kippur

Explanation

Passover (Pesach) retells the Exodus through the Seder, including symbolic foods and the reading of the Haggadah. The other festivals mark atonement, wilderness wandering, and the giving of the Torah respectively.

Question 36Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism identify suffering, its arising, its cessation, and which fourth element?

  1. The doctrine of a permanent self
  2. The path leading to the cessation of suffering Correct answer.
  3. The nature of nirvana as annihilation
  4. The necessity of ritual sacrifice

Explanation

The fourth truth prescribes the Noble Eightfold Path as the means to end suffering. The truths are framed as a diagnostic: the condition, its cause, its cure, and the treatment.

Question 37Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

In the Sikh tradition, the Guru Granth Sahib is best described as which of the following?

  1. A manual of ritual instructions for the gurdwara
  2. A collection of legal rulings issued by the Khalsa
  3. A biography of Guru Nanak written by his successors
  4. The eternal guru in scripture, composed largely of hymns Correct answer.

Explanation

Sikhs regard the Guru Granth Sahib as the living, eternal guru after the line of human gurus ended. It is chiefly a compilation of devotional hymns by Sikh gurus and other saints, treated with the reverence due a sovereign teacher.

Question 38Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

Which figure is regarded in Chinese religious tradition as the author of the Daodejing and the founding sage of Daoism?

  1. Confucius
  2. Mencius
  3. Zhuangzi
  4. Laozi Correct answer.

Explanation

Laozi is traditionally credited with the Daodejing and honored as Daoism's founding figure. Zhuangzi is a later Daoist thinker, while Confucius and Mencius belong to the Confucian tradition.

Question 39Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

A Muslim facing Mecca for daily prayer is fulfilling which ritual requirement, and what is that direction called?

  1. Adhan, the call to prayer issued from a minaret
  2. Wudu, the ablution performed before prayer
  3. Tawaf, the circumambulation of the Kaaba
  4. Qibla, the direction of prayer toward the Kaaba Correct answer.

Explanation

The qibla is the orientation toward the Kaaba in Mecca that Muslims adopt during prayer. It is a spatial requirement distinct from purification, the call to prayer, and pilgrimage rituals.

Question 40Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

A student argues that Jewish law and Christian ethics are identical because both traditions revere the Hebrew Bible. Which distinction best corrects this claim?

  1. Judaism has no ethical teachings and concerns only ritual.
  2. Christians reject the Hebrew Bible entirely, so no shared ethics exist.
  3. Christian ethics derive solely from Greek philosophy, not scripture.
  4. Halakha remains a binding legal system in Judaism, while most Christian traditions treat Mosaic law as fulfilled or superseded in Christ. Correct answer.

Explanation

Both traditions read the Hebrew Bible, but they construe its legal material differently. Rabbinic Judaism treats halakha as an ongoing normative system, whereas most Christian theology reads the law through its fulfillment in Christ and distinguishes ceremonial from moral elements.

Question 41Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

In Theravada versus Mahayana Buddhism, the bodhisattva ideal is most closely associated with which outlook?

  1. Theravada emphasis on individual arhatship
  2. Mahayana emphasis on postponing final liberation to benefit all beings Correct answer.
  3. Vajrayana insistence on monastic celibacy
  4. Zen rejection of all Buddhist teachings

Explanation

Mahayana texts elevate the bodhisattva, who vows to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings rather than seeking personal nirvana first. Theravada literature does contain bodhisattva teaching, but the arhat path is its more prominent soteriological emphasis.

Question 42Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

How does the Hindu concept of dharma differ from the Buddhist use of the same term?

  1. Both traditions use it exclusively to mean ritual sacrifice.
  2. Both traditions use it only as a synonym for liberation.
  3. In Buddhism it means caste duty, while in Hinduism it means the monastic rule.
  4. In Hinduism it often means social and caste duty, while in Buddhism it means the teaching and the nature of phenomena. Correct answer.

Explanation

Dharma is polysemous across traditions. Hindu usage commonly covers duty tied to stage of life and social position, while Buddhist usage designates the Buddha's teaching and the lawful nature of things.

Question 43Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

Which pairing correctly matches a religion with its principal scripture?

  1. Islam - Talmud
  2. Sikhism - Guru Granth Sahib Correct answer.
  3. Hinduism - Avesta
  4. Judaism - Bhagavad Gita

Explanation

The Guru Granth Sahib is the central Sikh scripture. The other pairings cross traditions: the Talmud is Jewish, the Bhagavad Gita is Hindu, and the Avesta is Zoroastrian.

Question 44Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

The doctrine of the Trinity in Christian theology attempts to reconcile which two affirmations?

  1. The goodness of creation and the reality of evil
  2. The unity of God and the full divinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Correct answer.
  3. The authority of scripture and the authority of tradition
  4. The humanity of Christ and the sinlessness of Mary

Explanation

Trinitarian doctrine holds that God is one in being while Father, Son, and Spirit are distinct persons who are each fully divine. It is a response to the tension between monotheism and the New Testament's language about Christ and the Spirit.

Question 45Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

In Confucian thought, which practice is understood as the ritual and social mechanism that cultivates moral character within relationships?

  1. Karma, the law of moral causation
  2. Wu wei, effortless non-action
  3. Li, the performance of propriety and ritual Correct answer.
  4. Jihad, the struggle in the path of God

Explanation

Li covers ritual propriety, etiquette, and the patterned conduct that shapes a person's character and sustains social harmony. Confucians treat it as formative practice rather than empty ceremony.

Question 46Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

A Jain practitioner is most concerned with which principle in daily conduct?

  1. Tzedakah, the obligation of righteous giving
  2. Seva, selfless service in the Sikh tradition
  3. Jizya, the tax on non-Muslims
  4. Ahimsa, the strict avoidance of harm to living beings Correct answer.

Explanation

Jain ethics center on ahimsa, nonviolence, which shapes diet, occupation, and monastic discipline. The other terms belong to Islamic, Jewish, and Sikh frameworks respectively.

Question 47Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

Which statement best captures the role of the Kaaba in Islamic practice?

  1. It is a relic housed in Medina and visited during Ramadan.
  2. It is the direction of prayer and the focus of pilgrimage, though it is not worshipped. Correct answer.
  3. It is the site of the Prophet's tomb and the qibla's origin.
  4. It is a statue of the Prophet Muhammad venerated by pilgrims.

Explanation

The Kaaba in Mecca orients prayer and anchors the Hajj rites, but Islamic teaching forbids worshipping it; worship is directed to God alone. It is not a statue or a tomb.

Question 48Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

How does the Jewish conception of covenant differ from the Islamic conception of prophecy?

  1. Covenant binds a specific people through a lasting agreement, while prophecy conveys divine guidance through messengers to communities. Correct answer.
  2. Both concepts are identical in Jewish and Islamic thought.
  3. Covenant concerns only dietary rules, while prophecy concerns only warfare.
  4. Covenant is unique to Islam, while prophecy is unique to Judaism.

Explanation

Jewish covenant theology emphasizes a binding relationship between God and Israel with obligations and promises. Islamic prophecy emphasizes a line of messengers conveying guidance, with Muhammad as the seal of the prophets.

Question 49Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

A text describes a school that holds reality to be radically impermanent and rejects the notion of an enduring self. Which tradition does this most directly describe?

  1. Sikhism, through the doctrine of the ten gurus
  2. Buddhism, through the doctrines of anicca and anatta Correct answer.
  3. Confucianism, through the doctrine of li
  4. Zoroastrianism, through the doctrine of the two spirits

Explanation

Anicca denotes impermanence and anatta the absence of a permanent self; together they are marks of existence in Buddhist thought. The other options name doctrines unrelated to these claims.

Question 50Major World Religions and Their Worldviews

Which claim about the Bhagavad Gita is most accurate?

  1. It is a legal code governing Hindu temple construction.
  2. It is a Buddhist sutra on the perfection of wisdom.
  3. It is a collection of Vedic hymns to the fire god Agni.
  4. It is a philosophical dialogue embedded in the Mahabharata that discusses duty, devotion, and paths to liberation. Correct answer.

Explanation

The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna within the epic Mahabharata, treating karma, jnana, and bhakti as paths to liberation. It is not a Buddhist sutra, a building manual, or a Vedic hymn collection.