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Holy books: quiz worksheet

A printable worksheet for the classroom: 10 multiple-choice questions on the sacred books, with an answer key and explanations on the last page.

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  1. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

    1. A The Torah (Genesis)
    2. B The Kojiki
    3. C The Gospel of John
    4. D The Qur’an

  2. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

    1. A The book of Genesis
    2. B The Avesta
    3. C The Gospel of John
    4. D The Book of the Dead

  3. “Your right is to the action alone, never to its fruits.”

    1. A The Dhammapada
    2. B The Analects
    3. C The Daodejing
    4. D The Bhagavad Gita

  4. “Mind precedes all things; mind is their chief; they are made by mind.”

    1. A The Bhagavad Gita
    2. B The Ācārāṅga Sūtra
    3. C The Dhammapada
    4. D The Daodejing

  5. “The Way that can be spoken of is not the constant Way.”

    1. A The Analects
    2. B The Daodejing
    3. C The Kojiki
    4. D The Dhammapada

  6. “To learn and in due time to practise what one has learned: is that not a pleasure?”

    1. A The Analects of Confucius
    2. B The Guru Granth Sahib
    3. C The Bhagavad Gita
    4. D The Daodejing

  7. “One Creator. Truth is the Name. Maker of all, without fear, without hate…”

    1. A The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
    2. B The Guru Granth Sahib
    3. C The Vedas
    4. D The Qur’an

  8. “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”

    1. A The Torah
    2. B The Qur’an
    3. C The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
    4. D The Avesta

  9. “I have not done wrong. I have not robbed. I have not killed people… I am pure.”

    1. A The Egyptian Book of the Dead
    2. B Homer’s Iliad
    3. C The Avesta
    4. D The Kojiki

  10. “Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus.”

    1. A Homer’s Odyssey
    2. B Hesiod’s Theogony
    3. C Virgil’s Aeneid
    4. D Homer’s Iliad

Answer key

  1. A · The Torah (Genesis). Genesis 1:1, the first verse of the Hebrew Bible: Bereshit bara Elohim…
  2. C · The Gospel of John. John 1:1, written in Greek: En archē ēn ho logos…
  3. D · The Bhagavad Gita. Bhagavad Gita 2.47: Krishna’s teaching of action without attachment to its results.
  4. C · The Dhammapada. The first verse of the Dhammapada, in Pali: Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā…
  5. B · The Daodejing. The opening of the Daodejing, chapter 1.
  6. A · The Analects of Confucius. Analects 1.1, the first saying of the collection.
  7. B · The Guru Granth Sahib. The Mul Mantar, which opens the Sikh scripture on its first page.
  8. B · The Qur’an. The opening verse of al-Fātiḥa, the first sura, recited in every prayer.
  9. A · The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Spell 125: the declarations of innocence before the judgement of Osiris.
  10. D · Homer’s Iliad. Iliad 1.1. The Greeks had no scripture, but Homer shaped how they imagined their gods.

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