Religious Knowledge Quiz

The Religious Knowledge Quiz asked fifteen questions related to world religions and the primary Christianity questions that make up a good majority of the US population. The quiz was used to analyze the levels of religious literacy in the United States, an extremely religiously diverse country, and to see if any one religious scored higher than the others. The purpose was to show how important religion is in human society and how many religions there are in day-to-day life among peers, coworkers, and businesses. I asked six students outside of the Honors College to take the quiz: Three boys and three girls. I didn’t ask ahead of time what their religious background was, but I instead saved that question for after they finished the quiz so they could compare themselves to other people of that religion. All

The specifics of the Christianity/Catholicism questions were stated as “unfair” by some of the students I researched because no one but practicing religious people would have known the specifics. However, not all of the religions were mentioned in the quiz and there is definitely more information to cover about religions. That being said, the students I researched and I discussed that the quiz would not be a good measure of religious literacy because of the specific questions and that the quiz was too short to gather accurate data. Fifteen questions in this quiz, even though the original quiz was thirty questions, is not long enough to establish a solid ground on the religious knowledge of a group of people. However, the quiz is useful in helping make people aware of their own shortcomings or lack of knowledge in the religious field and may help motivate them to look up facts about other religions just to have a general understanding of what other religions believe