Brother Wayne The Story of Yusuf Islam and Eboos Father Questions Response QUESTION 1 Brother Wayne, as a committed monk, wants Eboo and Kevin to consider

Brother Wayne The Story of Yusuf Islam and Eboos Father Questions Response QUESTION 1
Brother Wayne, as a committed monk, wants Eboo and Kevin to consider converting to Christianity.
True False

QUESTION 2
Eboo has taken excellent teacher training courses in college and is well prepared for his first teaching job.
True False

QUESTION 3
At El Cuarto Año, Eboo learns from some of his students that they join gangs in part because they have no other community of people for whom they are somebody.
True False

QUESTION 4
After college, working as a teacher, Eboo eventually starts a weekly potluck and discussion group that appeals to others who are lonely for community in the city.
True False

QUESTION 5
Eboo and Kevin find the interfaith events to which Brother Wayne takes them to be exciting, stimulating opportunities to share their Muslim and Jewish faith with others.
True False

QUESTION 6
In looking back at his friendship with Brother Wayne, Eboo now realizes that he had harbored an “adolescent discrimination against the familiar,” meaning a tendency to discount his own tradition in favor of more exotic-seeming religious alternatives.
True False

QUESTION 7
The initial interfaith experiences Eboo had after college helped shape his vision for his own life’s work: to develop something new for young people.
True False

QUESTION 8
In meeting the Dalai Lama, Eboo and Kevin discover that he is more interested in their immersion in their own faith traditions (for Eboo, Ismaili Islam) than in their proficiency in Buddhist meditation.
True False

QUESTION 9
Eboo’s grandmother surprises him by both deflating his arrogance and modeling a much richer example of Islam in action than he had ever realized before – in fact, he later learns that she is considered a living saint of his tradition.
True False

QUESTION 10
In London, Azim Nanji helps Eboo explore and experience Islam as a “magnificent” tradition.
True False

QUESTION 11
The story of Yusuf Islam and Eboo’s father illustrates that all Muslims are required to sacrifice their love of music in order to be more fully devoted to God (Allah).
True False

QUESTION 12
In Oxford, Eboo experienced creation itself revealing to him the beauty and goodness of the life that God has entrusted to human beings, beginning with Adam.
True False

QUESTION 13
The Qur’an describes an “inner light” in each human being, inscribed on our souls by God and innately open to the love and mercy of God, which is called jahilliya.
True False

QUESTION 14
Through his mentors – from his grandmother to Fazlur Rahman and the Aga Khan – Eboo grows into the realization of Islam as a beautiful, ethical, service-minded religion, a vision of dignity and peace for human life that he wants to embody in his life too.
True False

QUESTION 15
Eboo founds the Muslim Youth Corps as a way to inspire other young and possibly alienated Muslims with the larger vision of Islam religion that had helped him.
True False

QUESTION 16
At one point prior to Luther’s time there were five rival popes all claiming to be the true pope.
True False

QUESTION 17
The reason Luther opposed the sale of indulgences was because it is wrong to try to profit off people’s spiritual needs and to put a price on what God gives freely.
True False

QUESTION 18
Luther insisted that the priesthood of all believers meant that ordinary human vocations that participate in God’s love for the world – even something as seemingly lowly as caring for a baby and changing its diapers – are just as holy before God as being an ordained priest.
True False

QUESTION 19
Despite his belief that human sexuality and love are honorable, Luther himself never got married.
True False

QUESTION 20
The “Diet of Worms” refers to the fact that when the church rebuked Luther for his disobedience toward the pope, he was ordered to eat worms as penance.
True False