Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Which of the following best describes the term
jihad as intended by the original founders of Islamic fundamentalism?
a. | Violent and indiscriminate killing of
non-Muslims | b. | Retreat into an inner sanctuary of religious
purity | c. | Submission to one's passions | d. | Struggle to please God |
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Which best characterizes the strategies pursued by
Islamic fundamentalist groups for achieving their political aims?
a. | Most attempted to gain power through elections and
placing members in influential government positions, but some sought violent
revolutions. | c. | They focused only on attacking
non-Muslims | b. | A few attempted to
gain power through elections, but most were intent on violent revolutions. | d. | They focused only
on launching attacks outside the Islamic world. |
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Why did Osama bin Laden and the leaders of al-Qaeda
come to declare the US as their enemy?
a. | They wanted to scare Americans into converting to
Islam. | b. | They objected to American military presence in Saudi
Arabia after the first Gulf War. | c. | They hated Christianity | d. | They mistakenly
though the United States was an extension of the USSR, which had been their enemy in
Afghanistan. |
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In what way has mainstream Christianity responded
to the effects of globalization?
a. | By splintering into ever-smaller
subgroups | b. | By losing touch with its moral center | c. | By addressing the moral and ethical problems of social justice, human rights,
and the suffering of the poor throughout the world | d. | By pulling into a defensive, insular shell
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| Country |
Literacy Rate
Female
/ Male | Public
Expenditures
on Education per
Student | | Egypt | 34 / 63 | $ 185 | | Brazil | 80 / 83 | $ 321 | | Botswana | 65 / 84 | $ 462 | | China | 62 / 84 | $ 52 | | Iraq | 49 / 70 | $ 322 | | Rwanda | 37 / 64 | $ 71 | | Switzerland | 99 / 99 | $ 12,630 | | United States | 99 / 99 | $ 6,580 | | | |
Figure 32-1
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According to Figure 32-1, which of the following countries has the lowest
literacy rate for women?
a. | Brazil | c. | Rwanda | b. | Iraq | d. | Egypt |
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The term "fundamentalism" originated in
______.
a. | the Islamic world
| c. | Africa | b. | India | d. | the U.S. |
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One of the founders of Islamic fundamentalism,
Sayyid Qutb, saw Western culture as ______.
a. | very attractive | b. | easily overcome | c. | seductive and
poisonous | d. | incomprehensible. |
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Islamic fundamentalist groups from Indonesia to
Africa provided the ______ that many third world governments offered inadequately or not at all.
a. | help for career advancement | c. | social services | b. | police
force. | d. | legal
counsel. |
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For some Islamic revolutionaries, the very
existence of ______ was illegitimate.
a. | Israel | c. | the European Union | b. | the US | d. | Christianity |
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Osama bin Laden created al-Qaeda to help fight
against ____________.
a. | The US in Lebanon | c. | The USSR in Afghanistan | b. | The US in
Iraq | d. | Israel in the West
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