{"id":7024,"date":"2010-06-02T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2010-06-02T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T00:21:40","slug":"answers-to-uu-religious-literacy-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7024","title":{"rendered":"Answers to UU religious literacy quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Answers to the quizzes are below. Scoring: Give yourself partial credit if you want. Passing score is 65 for each quiz. Brag about your high score, or bemoan your low score, or tell me where I went wrong, in the comments.<\/p>\n

Universalism religious literacy quiz<\/a>
\nUnitarianism religious literacy quiz<\/a>
\nUnitarian Universalism religious literacy quiz<\/a><\/p>\n

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Religious literacy quiz: North American Universalists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Part One: Theology<\/em><\/p>\n

(1) Treatise on Atonement<\/em>, Hosea Ballou. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(2) There will be limited punishment after death for sins in this life, but eventually everyone will go to heaven. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(3) Originally meant universal salvation, reinterpreted to mean a universal religion for all humankind. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

Part Two: Institutional history<\/em><\/p>\n

(4) John and Judith Sargent Murray were key figures in organizing a Universalist congregation in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1779. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(5) Winchester, New Hampshire, in 1803. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(6) Universalist General Convention. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

Part Three: Important Universalists<\/em><\/p>\n

For each of the following, give one short sentence on their accomplishment(s), and say which half century (e.g., first half of the nineteenth century) they were active:<\/p>\n

(7) Judith Sargent Murray: see no. 4 above; wrote first North American Universalist catechism. Last half of 18th C. [10 points]<\/p>\n

(8) Hosea Ballou: most important Universalist theologian, wrote Treatise on Atonement<\/em>. Late 18th and early 19th C. [10 points]<\/p>\n

(9) Olympia Brown: first woman to be ordained a minister by a national religious body (by the Universalist General Convention). Late 19th C. [10 points]<\/p>\n

(10) P. T. Barnum: showman and circus promoter. Mid 19th C. [10 points]<\/p>\n

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Religious literacy quiz: North American Unitarians<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Part One: Theology<\/em><\/p>\n

(1) “Unitarian Christianity,” a sermon preached by William Ellery Channing. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(2) Jenkin Lloyd Jones was one key figure. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(3) Both. After he left fundamentalism, James Luther Adams became a humanist, but later was allied with the Christians in Unitarianism and Unitarian Universalism. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

Part Two: Institutional history<\/em><\/p>\n

(4) King’s Chapel, Boston, 1785, James Freeman. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(5) None whatsoever. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(6) 1825. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(7) Small groups of 10 or more, without a minister, could affiliate as Unitarian congregations beginning after the Second World War. The fellowship movement contributed to the growth of Unitarianism in the post-war period. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

Part Three: Important Unitarians<\/em><\/p>\n

For each of the following, give one short sentence on their accomplishment(s), and say which half century (e.g., first half of the nineteenth century) they were active:<\/p>\n

(8) Minister, abolitionist, scholar, prominent exponent of Transcendentalist views, Theodore Parker’s congregation regularly attracted over 2,000 people a week. Mid 19th C. [10 points]<\/p>\n

(9) Egbert Ethelred Brown was an early Black Unitarian minister. Early 20th C. [10 points]<\/p>\n

(10) Sophia Fahs was a key figure in revitalizing religious education. Mid 20th C. [10 points]<\/p>\n

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Religious literacy quiz: North American Unitarian Universalists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Part One: Theology<\/em><\/p>\n

(1) The flaming chalice originated as a symbol of the Unitarian Service Committee during the Second World War. The artist, Hans Deutsch, had no particular symbolism in mind, but certainly the flaming chalice was a symbol of the Service Committee. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(2) The hymnal. Or the Bylaws of the Unitarian Universalist Asosication, especially the so-called “Principles and Purposes.” [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(3) There is no general agreement on the answer to this question; perhaps the fourth option is best, but give yourself credit for choosing any one of the choices. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

Part Two: Institutional history<\/em><\/p>\n

(4) Consolidation (not merger). Consolidation meant that the vote of the associated congregations did not have to be unanimous; whereas merger (in the legal sense) required all congregations in each of the denominations to agree. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(5) 1961. Revised in 1985 (to remove gender-specific language), and again in 1994 (seventh principle added). [10 points.]<\/p>\n

(6) While there are endless arguments about the precise origin of the controversy, the most general answer would be that African American Unitarian Universalists sought a greater voice and real power within the Unitarian Universalist Association. [10 points.]<\/p>\n

Part Three: Important Unitarian Universalists<\/em><\/p>\n

For each of the following, give one short sentence on a major accomplishment, and say which decade this accomplishment happened:<\/p>\n

(7) Dana McLean Greeley: first president of the UUA. 1960s. [10 points]<\/p>\n

(8) Sandra M. Caron: first woman moderator of the UUA. 1970s. [10 points]<\/p>\n

(9) Robert Fulghum: published the bestseller All I Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten<\/em>, based in part on a series of church newsletter columns he wrote, and became for a time perhaps the best known living Unitarian Universalists. 1980s. [10 points]<\/p>\n

(10) William Sinkford: first African American president of the UUA, and one of the first African American presidents of a historically white denomination. 2000s. [10 points]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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