01 Oct Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer.
• Question1Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer.
True
False
• Question2Which French novelist wrote the novel “Les Miserables” in 1862, which called powerful attention to the poor in France?
Voltaire
Rousseau
Victor Hugo
Alexandre Dumas
• Question3The concept of “yin and yang” comes from which tradition?
Taoism
Confucianism
Hinduism
Buddhism
• Question4 Who was the first major advocate of Stoicism?
Aristippus
Socrates
Plato
Zeno
• Question5The Dalai Lama is the leader of which segment of Buddhism?
MahayanaBuddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Tantric Buddhism
Zen Buddhism
• Question6What does the word “Zen” refer to in Zen Buddhism?
Piety
Obedience
Renunciati on
Meditation
• Question7The fables of which Greek writer contain many stories and morals that stay with humanity from age to age?
Sophocles
Herodotus
Aesop
Homer
• Question8 “The Great Spirit” is/was a concept in which society’s beliefs?
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Greeks
Native Americans
Buddhists
• Question9
Which American poet was greatly influenced by the religious thought of India?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
• Question10 The concept of “Carpe Diem” is based on which theory of happiness?
Hedonism
Epicureanism
Stoicism
Aristotle’s philosophy of happiness
