Quiz Test - Interfaith America

Which U.S. President, while addressing a Jewish community and affirming America’s commitment to interfaith cooperation, insisted that “the Government of the United States …gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance”?

Ronald W. Reagan

George Washington

William J. Clinton

John F. Kennedy

Who was the first U.S. President to host an iftar, the sundown meal when Muslims break their daily fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, at the White House?

Barack Obama

Thomas Jefferson

George W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

Esther Peterson was a fierce advocate for women’s rights, consumer rights, fair minimum wage, and labor unions. She successfully lobbied for labeling of foods with their nutritional values, and according to her obituary in The New York Times, she “has an impact on Americans every time they buy a can of soup.” What tradition was Esther Peterson?

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon)

Roman Catholic

Episcopalian

Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon)

Which religious or ethical leader, while marching arm in arm with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma to Montgomery to rally for voter rights, reflected, “I felt my legs were praying”? What was his or her tradition?

Pauli Murray, Christianity

A. Philip Randolph, Humanism

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Judaism

Thicht Naht Hahn, Buddhism

All religious and ethical traditions have some version of the “golden rule” at their heart. Can you match the iteration of the golden rule to its corresponding tradition? “I am a stranger to no one, and no one is a stranger to me, indeed, I am a friend to all.”

Buddhism

Hinduism

Sikhism

What organization, founded and led by evangelical Christians, has become a worldwide leader in the affordable-housing movement, and which self-described born-again evangelical U.S. president is one of its most prominent supporters?

Habitat for Humanity and President Jimmy Carter

Points of Light Foundation and President H.W. Bush

Mercy Housing and President Lyndon B. Johnson

Samaritan’s Purse and President Ronald Reagan

Which major world religion, in the 1965 document Nostra Aetate (Latin for “In Our Age”), recognized shared philosophical questions in Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism, affirmed the unity of all people in God, decried all forms of religious discrimination, and affirmed the possibility of truth in other traditions, in so far as those truths aligned with the faith’s teaching?

Orthodox Judaism

Roman Catholicism

Anglicanism

Greek Orthodoxy

Can you match the iteration of the golden rule to its corresponding tradition? “This is the sum of duty: do not do unto others what would cause pain to you.”

Sikhism

Islam

Hinduism

Mahatma Gandhi once wrote that “the bold and brave resistance, full of wisdom” of which religious or spiritual figure inspired his own non-violent resistance philosophy?

Moses

Rama

Jesus Christ

Buddha

Can you match the iteration of the golden rule to its corresponding tradition? “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”

Islam

Judaism

Christianity

Can you match the iteration of the golden rule to its corresponding tradition? “Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.”

Judaism

Buddhism

Islam

Can you match the iteration of the golden rule to its corresponding tradition? “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary.”

Christianity

Judaism

Islam

Which poet, mystic, and religious thinker was translated and lauded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, promoted by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and quoted admiringly by Sherlock Holmes in a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle?

Moses Maimonides

Saint John of the Cross

Hafiz of Shiraz

Edmund Spenser

Can you match the iteration of the golden rule to its corresponding tradition? “Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.”

Judaism

Christianity

Islam

Can you match the iteration of the golden rule to its corresponding tradition? "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

Islam

Buddhism

Christianity

Which tradition’s core text articulates a vision of “a free and universal society in which people voluntarily and intelligently cooperate for the common good ...[demanding] a shared life in a shared world”?

Quakerism

Secular Humanism

Buddhism

Jainism