REVIEW FOR RELIGIOUS LITERATURE

A MYTH IS A STORY EXPLAINS

WHAT?

NATURALPHENOMENA(THUNDER,

EARTHQUAKES, ETC.)

WHAT KIND OF STORY RECORDS THE DEEDS OF

GREAT HEROES?

LEGENDS

GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF AN

EPIC POEM.

ODYSSEYOR RAMAYANA

ANOTHER NAME FOR A HYMN OR PRAYER THAT IS MEANT TO BE

SUNG.

PSALM

STORIES USED TO EXPLAIN A

MORAL (RIGHT V. WRONG)

PARABLES

MEMORABLE SHORT LITTLE

SAYINGS

PROVERBS

STORIES IN WHICH

ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE OR

ENCOUNTER MAGIC

FOLKTALES

FIRST CIVILIZATION TO HAVE WRITING

SUMERIANS

THE FIRST WRITING WAS

CALLED

CUNEIFORM

EGYPTIAN WRITING IS

CALLED

HIEROGLYPHICS

NAME A COUNTRY THAT

IS NEAR THE COUNTRY OF

ISRAEL

EGYPTSAUDI ARABIA

JORDANSYRIA

LEBANON

JEWS TRACE THEIR HISTORY TO THIS MAN.

(SO DO MUSLIMS AND

CHRISTIANS…)

ABRAHAM

WHAT DOES MONOTHEISTIC

MEAN?

1 GOD

JEWS BELIEVE THEY HAVE A SPECIAL

RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR GOD AND HE

WATCHES OVER THEM AND GUIDES THEIR

DESTINY. THIS IS CALLED A ______?

COVENANT

JEWS’ MAJOR TEXT IS

CALLED?

THE TORAH

THE HERO OF THE

SUMERIAN FLOOD STORY

GILGAMESH

HERO OF THE JEWISH

FLOOD STORY

NOAH

JEWISH STORY MOSES LEADS

THE ISRAELITES OUT OF EGYPT

EXODUS

BIBLE STORYTHIS MAN

GETS SWALLOWED BY A BIG FISH

JONAH

ADAM AND EVE LIVED IN

THE…?

GARDEN OF EDEN

BIBLE STORY: LITTLE GUY

FIGHTS A BIG GUY AND

WINS

DAVID V. GOLIATH

OLDEST MAJOR

RELIGION IS?

HINDUISM

THE ETERNAL BEING THAT

CREATED AND PRESERVES THE

WORLD FOR HINDUS

BRAHMAN

THE UNIVERSAL SOUL THAT

BELONGS TO EVERYONE

ATMAN

NAME ONE INCARNATION OF

THE HINDU RELIGION

BRAHMASHIVA

VISHNU

THE PATTERN OF LIFE -> DEATH-> REBIRTH

REINCARNATION

YOUR HINDU SPIRITUAL

DUTY

DHARMA

HOW A HINDU BEHAVES IN

LIFE IS CALLED?

KARMA

MEDITATION AND

EXERCISE FOR HINDUS IS CALLED?

YOGA

SACRED RIVER FOR

HINDUS

GANGES

OLDEST HINDU

SACRED TEXT

VEDAS

COLLECTION OF OLD

HINDU FOLK TALES

PANCHANTRA

A STORY THAT CONTAINS

MANY STORIES

INSIDE OF IT

FRAMESTORY

MOST IMPORTANT HINDU TEXT

MAHABHARATA OR

BHAGAVAD GITA

THE RAMAYANA IS WHAT TYPE

OF LITERATURE

EPIC POEM

HERO OF RAMAYANA

RAMA

VILLAIN OF RAMAYANA

RAVANA

THE WORD ISLAM MEANS

PEACE

LIST 1 OF THE 5 THINGS AN

ISLAMIC BELIEVER MUST

DO:

NO GOD BUT ALLAHPRAYING FIVE TIMES EACH DAYGIVE TO CHARITY (ALMS)FAST (REFRAIN FROM EATING)HAJJ – PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA

MAIN ISLAMIC TEXT

KORAN

MAN WHO STARTED

ISLAM

MUHAMMAD

MUHAMMAD GOT HIS

REVELATIONS FROM?

ANGEL GABRIEL

THE KORAN IS WRITTEN IN

WHAT LANGUAGE?

ARABIC