The nurse is helping a patient choose her menu options for the following day. The nurse reads out the option of ham with scalloped potatoes and the patient states that her religion does not allow this
Which of the following is most likely the patient's religion?
A) Roman Catholicism
B) Buddhism
C) Islam
D) Mormonism
Ans: C
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Many Islamic people abstain from eating pork. Members of other religions also proscribe the consumption of meat in general, or pork in particular, but the other listed religions are not among these.
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