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1. According to a report in the May 22, 2000 issue of Christianity Today, what are the top four North American denominations, as listed in the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches?

2. What is one article in the current issue of the Journal of Religion & Society? Write the author’s name and the article title.

3. What is the first line of the Tao De Ching by Lao Tze?

4. What is the Quote of the Day from L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology?

5. How many members are listed in the Southern Baptist Convention’s records?

6. Statistically, how many diocesan priests are there in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia?

7. In today’s Catholic World News, what are two headlines?

8. When did Pope John Paul II promulgate corrections to the Second Edition English Translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church?

9. According to the online Catholic Encyclopedia, when and where was St. Francis de Sales born?

10. One area within bioethics is abortion. What are two Supreme Court cases involving abortion?

11. Do all feminists support abortion? How do you know?

12. Name two early Christian authors who wrote about the Virgin Mary’s assumption or dormition.

13. Who created and maintains the Homepage for Saint Augustine of Hippo?

14. What is the Nag Hammadi Library? When and where was it discovered?

15. In the literature of Early Judaism, who is Lilith?

16. How was Karl Popper honored by Queen Elizabeth in 1965?

17. What is the “Jesus Seminar”?

18. What are some online biblical studies journals? (Give the titles of three.)

19. In the Song of Songs 4:1 of the New American Bible, to what is the bride’s hair compared?

20. The religion links section of U.S.A. Today has a link to a site which features the saint of the day. Who is today’s saint?

21. What are three online journals relating to Jewish history?

22. According to Fred L. Horton, Jr., Kenneth G. Hoglund, and Mary F. Foskett in A Basic Vocabulary for Biblical Studies for Beginning Students (Wake Forest University, 2000), what is the Vulgate?

23. If you wanted to do an Internet search for a topic in philosophy, which search engine should you use?

24. If you wanted to do an Internet search for a topic dealing with the ancient or medieval world, which search engine should you use?