17. THE ATLANTIC SYSTEM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, 1700

Quiz for Document 17.1: European Views of Indian Religious Practices (1731)

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1. The Protestant authors focused on the fakirs in order to show that

all religious rituals were useless.

Indians had especially bizarre customs.

Indian customs could be compared to those of Catholics.

no one had ever heard of this kind of behavior before.

2. The Protestant authors refer to the Bible because

the Old Testament was especially well-known to Indians.

the Old Testament included descriptions of Indian religious customs.

the Old Testament included descriptions of religious customs like those of the fakirs.

Catholics paid no attention to the Bible.