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Question:1 The Jain worldview holds that a Creator

		created evil as well as good
		does not exist.
		made the world
		created only good things

10 points 

QUESTION 3

1. Hylozoism, the metaphysical philosophy of Jainism,

   		recommends celibacy and the monastic life
   		holds that religion and culture are the same
   		sees women as equal to men in the possibility of spiritual develoopment
   		sees life in everything, even what is inanimate

10 points 

QUESTION 4

1. Jains allow and even recommend

   		living by farming and fishing as ways of staying close to nature
   		use of bodily passions to gain spiritual insight
   		long periods of sleeplessness to attain unusual states of consciousness
   		gentle suicide after a long life of virtue

10 points 

QUESTION 5

1. Jains consider Mahavira to be

   		one of the twenty major disciples of Ramakrishna
   		the twenty-fourth "crossing-maker".
   		the third god of their trinity
   		the first person to have researched the top of the universe

10 points 

QUESTION 6

1. Jain monks differ from Buddhist monks in

   		allowing the drinking of liquor
   		allowing the eating of food after noon
   		refusing to beg for food
   		allowing nakedness

10 points 

QUESTION 7

1. In the story of their lives, Mahavira and the Buddah show similarities, such as

   		their both being of the brahmin caste but rejecting its riturals
   		their both practicing extreme asceticism
   		the fact that they both were orphaned as children
   		the fact that they both came from the south of India

10 points 

QUESTION 8

1. Jainism sees reality as made up of

   		five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and consciousness
   		life (jiva) and nonlife (ajiva)
   		three principles: energy, inertia, and stasis
   		only physical matter, taking many different shapes

10 points 

QUESTION 9

1. Tirthankara is the Jain name that is translated as

   		crossing-maker.
   		one who has overcome
   		gone away
   		released from bondage

10 points 

QUESTION 10

1. The name of the Digambara branch literary means

   		painfree
   		upper-sight
   		sky-clothed
   		white lotus