True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or
false.
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According to your textbook, science may in fact have contributed to a "veritable
religious boom."
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A
"shaman" is the name given to a full-time religious specialist in non-Western
cultures.
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Priests
serve gods while shamans serve human clients.
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Rites
of passage frequently involve a symbolic death
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Anthropologists agree that menstrual taboos are universally a sign of the oppression
of women.
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6.
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The
power of Ju/'hoansi healers' n/um is all that is thought to protect the healer in a trance from
actual death.
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Shamanism is quite rare in human societies.
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8.
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Trance
and other altered states of consciousness are only occasionally associated with
shamanism.
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Religion is viewed by anthropologists as a variety of individual belief systems with
no practical consequences.
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As well
as being a sacred occasion, the sun dance was also a time for gambling and racing
horses.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best
completes the statement or answers the question.
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An
anthropologist who described the basic structure shared by many rites of passage was
______________. a. | Lewis Henry
Morgan | b. | Edwardb.
Tylor | c. | Arnold Van
Gennep | d. | Sir James
Frazer | e. | Bronislaw
Malinowski | | |
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A
____________ is a full-time religious specialist who occupies an office with a certain rank and
function. a. | shaman | b. | priest | c. | witch | d. | magician | e. | diviner | | |
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In The
Golden Bough, ______________ distinguished between religion and magic. a. | Malinowski | b. | Franz Boas | c. | Sir James Frazer | d. | Sir Edward Tylor | e. | Clifford Geertz | | |
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A
belief in _____________ enables people to explain why things go wrong by blaming certain individuals
who are said to have the internal psychic ability to cause harm to others. a. | witchcraft | b. | magic | c. | divination | d. | contagion | e. | evil | | |
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According to your textbook, among the Kaska of western Canada seclusion in the
menstrual hut offers women an opportunity to conduct_______________. a. | rituals of penitence for misdeeds | b. | séances | c. | prayer meetings | d. | illicit sexual affairs | e. | small businesses | | |
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Mathias
Guenther is a Canadian anthropologist who has studied_______________. a. | shamanism among the Inuit | b. | the Ju/’hoansi trickster | c. | Hindu goddesses | d. | Sioux sweat lodges | e. | Canadian funerals | | |
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When a
rejected lover in Burma throws an image of a girl who has rejected him into the water, with the
intention of causing her to go mad, he is practicing___________. a. | contagious magic | b. | illegal magic | c. | black magic | d. | imitative magic | e. | white magic | | |
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The
Basuto of Lesotho hide extracted teeth because they fear a. | gum disease | b. | tooth decay | c. | imitative magic | d. | a local version of the Tooth
Fairy | e. | contagious
magic | | |
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Rites
of passage, characteristically, have ____________ stages. a. | two | b. | four | c. | five | d. | three | e. | seven | | |
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Which
of the following is true of Ibibio witches? a. | They are always female | b. | They are believed to have a special substance in their
bodies, made up of threads, needles and other ingredients. | c. | They use special medicines to cause
harm | d. | They can change
into animals and travel great distances at high speed. | e. | both b and d | | |
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_________________ people were hanged as witches in Salem,
Massachusetts. a. | 19 | b. | 3 | c. | 152 | d. | more than 1000 | e. | 75 | | |
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According to your textbook, neo- pagans in North America are often
__________. a. | devil
worshippers | b. | mentally
disturbed | c. | highly
educated | d. | socially marginal
individuals | e. | brainwashed | | |
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According to Clyde Kluckhohn, witchcraft and witchcraft accusations among the Navajo
served to ___________. a. | channel tensions and frustrations resulting from relations
with Anglo Americans | b. | allow the expression of hostile feelings which were
otherwise suppressed | c. | make people behave better so they wouldn’t be accused
of witchcraft | d. | all of the
above | e. | both a and b, but
not c | | |
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Among
the Navajo witchcraft beliefs may have motivated people to _______________. a. | care for their elders, because they feared their elders
might turn into witches if they didn’t | b. | neglect old people, because they were believed to be
witches | c. | disobey leaders
who were widely believed to be witches, not deserving of respect | d. | attempt to conduct a revolution against the American
government | e. | give up their
Navajo identity because of fear of witches | | |
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During
the European witch trials __________per cent of the people executed were women. a. | 100 | b. | 85 | c. | 50 | d. | 25 | e. | less than 10 | | |
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26.
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Mau
Mau, cargo cults, Mormonism and the Ghost Dance are all examples of a. | established religions | b. | North American religious
movements | c. | revitalization
movements | d. | forms of political
resistance | e. | purely religious
movements without political goals | | |
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________________ is an anthropologist who described the sequence of events typical of
new religious movements. a. | Edwardb. Tylor | b. | Arnold Van Gennep | c. | Sir James Frazer | d. | Mary Douglas | e. | Anthony Wallace | | |
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Revitalization movements______________________. a. | are very rare | b. | are found only in small-scale horticultural
societies | c. | are found only in
highly developed state level societies | d. | never achieve permanence | e. | are at the root of Judaism, Christianity and
Islam | | |
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“Symbolic healing” _________________. a. | is found only in foraging
societies | b. | is found only in
societies which lack modern medicine | c. | is practiced mainly by neo-pagans | d. | can be found in all medical systems, including
biomedicine | e. | has largely
disappeared among contemporary First Nations people in Canada | | |
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Which
of the following is Edwardb. Tylor's perception of animism? a. | a belief in animal but not human
spirits | b. | a belief system
developed by farmers | c. | a belief that the world is animated by impersonal
supernatural powers | d. | a belief in spirit beings thought to animate
nature | e. | a belief system
developed by Western Europeans | | |
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Which
of the following explanations has/have been offered for the effectiveness of the sweat lodge,
according to the article by James Waldram? a. | the intense heat kills bacteria | b. | it may foster the release of endorphins, leading to a
euphoric feeling | c. | it offers an opportunity for purification and
rebirth | d. | all of the
above | e. | both b and c, but
not a | | |
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