True or False


1	"Japji" means 'Conqueror'; the Jain term for a perfected person who will not be reborn.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	"Sallekhana" means 'Building person'; a member of the youngest Jain sect, which rejects the use of statues and temples.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	"Digambara" means 'Clothed in sky'; a member of the Jain sect in which monks do not wear clothing.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	A "guru" is a spiritual teacher.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	"Punjab" is the area of northwest India and eastern Pakistan where Sikhism originated.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	"Jiva" means matter without soul or life.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	"Gurdwara" is the most recent tirthankara who is considered to be the greatest of them all and is often thought of by outsiders to be the founder of Jainism.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	"Ahimsa" is the ideal in Buddhism and Jainism that emphasizes nonharm and nonviolence.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	"Mahavira" is the founder of Sikhism.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	"Khalsa" is the community of initiated Sikhs.
		A)	True
		B)	False


11	A "Digambara" is a Sikh temple.
		A)	True
		B)	False


12	"Puja" means 'Disciple'; a follower of the Sikh religion.
		A)	True
		B)	False


13	The "Adi Granth" is the 'Original collection'; the primary scripture of the Sikhs.
		A)	True
		B)	False


14	"Adi Granth" means 'Holy Death'; death by self-starvation, valued in Jainism as a noble end of a long life of virtue and detachment.
		A)	True
		B)	False


15	Tirthankara means'Crossing maker'; in Jainism, one of the twenty-four ideal human beings of the past, Mahavira being the most recent.
		A)	True
		B)	False


16	"Ahimsa" is a poem by Guru Nanak that begins the Adi Granth; the poem is recited daily by pious Sikhs.
		A)	True
		B)	False


17	"Punjab," in Jainism, means ritual in honor of tirthankara.
		A)	True
		B)	False


18	"Shvetambara" means 'Clothed in white'; a member of the Jain sect in which monks and nuns wear white clothing.
		A)	True
		B)	False


19	"Jiva" means spirit, soul, which enlivens matter.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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