Released 2012 SOL WHI Practice Test

Siddhartha Gautama is considered to be the founder of which major religion?

• Taoism

• Buddhism

• Confucianism

• Hinduism

Which text is a central document to Judaism?

• Analects

• Koran (Quran)

• Torah

• Upanishads

Buddhists achieve enlightenment by following the ---?

• laws of the old testament

• decrees of the Upanishads

• Five Pillars

• Eightfold Path

Which religion best replaces the question mark?

• China

• Greece

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

The ruling authority of China's ancient dynasty was based on the----

• Code of Hammurabi

• Mandate of Heaven

• Twelve Tables

• Ten Commandments

What does this list represent?

• Class system of China

• Political system of Greece

• Feudal System of China

• Caste System of India

The practice of Orthodox Christianity in Russia was primarily the result of contact with the?

• Islamic Empire

• Persian Empire

• Mongol

• Byzantine

The battle of Tours was significant because it marked the ---

• end of Muslim expansion into Western Europe

• end of crusades in the Middle East

• beginning of British Dominace in Northern Europe

• Beginning of Turkish Rule in the Balkans

The Dome of the Rock is an example of which civilization's achievements in art and architecture?

• Chinese

• Greek

• Islamic

• Roman

Which religion encourages its followers to make a pilgrimage to this site?

• Islam

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Christianity