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I do like how you would reframe the questions to make them less biased. You make great points, so maybe the teacher was a bit biased. If he reworded the questions, then there would probably be no complaints from the parent(s).There are implicit, theistic assumptions in other question as well. The first four essentially work backwards from Christian beliefs/doctrines.
Q1 uses "started" and Q2 uses "who started it". Both imply agency. If you were actually interested in getting a fair answer, the first question would use a neutral/passive voice, like "How old is the earth?" or "What is the age of the world?". Q2 would be omitted altogether. Q3 and Q4 both assume that evil is a thing that could or could not exist, rather than treating it as a conceptual and descriptive label.
Further, Q8 probably doesn't belong in a History curriculum. You could squeak it into Social Studies or something similar, but probably only under a comparative religion topic area.
Having once been a history teacher and tutor, there's no way these questions weren't ideologically motivated and intended to draw students into a particular set of answers. If I was attempting to be impartial and really wanted to include Christianity in the lesson, I'd reframe the questions like this:
1. What is a religion? In your answer, include examples of the world's largest religions and their main beliefs.
2. What are some Christian beliefs about the origin and age of the world? Compare and contrast those with the beliefs of other major religions.
3. What do Christian believe about morality? In your answer, outline Christian conceptions of God, Satan and stances on the existence of good and evil.
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