Like Zande witches, Navaho witches are born with a physical substance within their
bodies that are responsible for their witchcraft.
Much of the popular Christian beliefs about angels comes not from the Bible, but from
other Church writings.
Exorcism is used primarily for the cure of witchcraft.
The approach to the study of religion that is concerned with the relationship between
culture and personality and the connection between society and the individual is the:
a. psychosocial approach
b. the functional approach
c. the analytic approach
d. the Marxist approach
The term pantheon refers to:
a. a hierarchy of gods
b. a collective of spirits
c. a coven of witches
d. the followers of a culture hero
Many revitalization movements developed within Christianity in the United States in
the early nineteenth century. An example of such a movement which developed into a
mainstream religion is the:
a. Methodist Church
b. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
c. Amish
d. Vodou
Characteristics of an altered state of consciousness include:
a. acceleration or slowing of time
b. sudden and unexpected displays of intense emotion
c. various parts of body may appear or feel shrunken, enlarged, distorted, heavy, or
weightless
d. all of the above
Wiccan beliefs include:
a. nature is a manifestation of deity
b. folk and ritual magic is used for good and never for evil
c. rituals associated with the goddess are performed at full moons
d. all of the above
Anthropologists attempt to see the world through the eyes of the people in the
community they are studying. This is:
a. emic analysis
b. functional analysis
c. etic analysis
d. psychosocial analysis
The importance of Mary for Roman Catholicism is evident in:
a. the celebration of her birth and death
b. the many shrines and pilgrimage sites associated with her
c. worshippers directly addressing her for protection
d. all of the above
The evolutionary school in the nineteenth century associated myths with:
a. the “primitive period”
b. the transition to modern times
c. full modernity
d. the future
Magic refers to rituals that people use to:
a. control the supernatural
b. call upon the deities for help
c. move a person from one status to another
d. explain a society’s worldview
Among Australian aborigines, the family will react to what they believe is an
impending death by:
a. singing ancestral songs
b. withdrawing from the dying person
c. withholding food and water
d. all of the above
A method of studying communities that is unique to anthropology is:
a. questionnaires
b. participant observation
c. psychological tests
d. recording of oral literature and songs
The term secondary burial refers to:
a. a separate burial for specific body parts (e.g., the head and hands)
b. any burial for those lower in the social stratification
c. a later burial during which the remains are dug up, processed, and reburied
d. a burial for a person who dies out of grief after the passing of their spouse
Generally speaking, all of the following are true about gods except:
a. they are individualized supernatural entities
b. they are anthropomorphic entities
c. they are human in origin
d. they are associated with a community or a segment of a community
Objects and actions whose meanings are arbitrary and conventional are known as:
a. values
b. symbols
c. constraints
d. worldviews
David Lewis-Williams suggests that Upper Paleolithic cave paintings are:
a. decorations
b. a form of imitative magic designed for successful hunting
c. representations of altered states of consciousness
d. a part of coming-of-age rituals
Kyta Baaly is a shaman from:
a. Korea
b. Shkha, Siberia
c. Okinawa
d. the American Southwest
Magic that is based upon the Law of Similarity is termed:
a. contagious magic
b. homeopathic magic
c. sympathetic magic
d. none of the above
The part of the brain that enables us to distinguish our selves from the world around us
is the:
a. cerebellum
b. orientation association structure
c. Broca’s area
d. frontal lobe
Peyote is used in rituals of:
a. the Holiness Church
b. the Native American Church
c. Vodou
d. San
Theory of mind refers to the idea that:
a. children are born with “blank slates” and slowly develop a mind through observation
and trial and error
b. people are not capable of seeing events as the result of randomness or coincidence
c. people know, or think they know, what is going on in another people’s minds
d. the evolution of a large brain was largely responsible for the development of the
human mind
A full-time religious specialist, who is associated with a formalized religious institution,
is a:
a. priest
b. healer
c. shaman
d. diviner
The Witchcraze:
a. took place in Europe during the 15th through 17th centuries
b. refers to witchcraft activity in New England during the 16th and 17th centuries
c. is the term used by E. E. Evans-Pritchard to refer to certain witchcraft activities
found in African tribal societies
d. refers to Neo-Pagan rituals in the 20th century
The Mayan calendar, which consists of a solar year of 365 days operating concurrently
with a year of 260 days. When both calendars run, they return to the same combinations
every ____ years, an important event in the Mayan calendar.
a. 12
b. 26
c. 52
d. 72
The development of full-time religious specialists is associated with:
a. foraging societies
b. small-scale horticultural societies
c. large, technologically advanced societies
d. all of the above
A patterned act that involves the manipulation of religious objects is termed a:
a. spell
b. ritual
c. sacrifice
d. prayer
The greatest number of gods ever recorded in a single society was found among
Yoruba.
An example of a membranophone is a:
a. flute
b. rattle
c. drum
d. violin
The orisha are an example of:
a. otiose gods
b. spirit beings
c. attribute gods
d. trickster gods
Features that characterize an altered state of consciousness in the Holiness Church
include:
a. energetic dancing for long periods of time
b. speaking in tongues
c. jerking of the body and trancelike states
d. all of the above
The African Burial Ground is a cemetery in:
a. West Africa which has been studied by anthropologists
b. East Africa where secondary burials of skeletons have been found
c. New York city that contains the burials of slaves from the 18th century
d. South Africa containing cremated remains
The Genii of the Aladdin story is a:
a. zombie
b. sorcerer
c. god
d. jinn
Dancing to heat up the energy known as n/um to enable healing characterized the:
a. Yanomam
b. Blessing Way
c. Sun Dance
d. San healing ritual
The Navaho story Din Bahan is an example of a(n):
a. origin story
b. apocalyptic story
c. trickster myth
d. hero myth
The idea that visions and other religious experiences are the product of brain function is
what is meant by theory of mind.
Karen McCarthy Brown’s study of vodou in New York City is an example of an
ethnography.
The Witchcraze is a Neo-Pagan religion found in Europe and the United States.
Generally speaking protective rituals tend to be performed in situations that are
dangerous and unpredictable.
mile Durkheim and Alfred Radcliff-Brown are associated with the evolutionary
approach to the study of religion.
Vampires and zombies as depicted in American movies are very similar to actual
ethnographic examples.
Witches in small-scale societies derived their power from the knowledge and use of
spells.
In many societies there are religious obligations that often take the form of ritual, such
as saying grace before each meal.
The assignment of meaning to a symbol is always based upon what the symbol looks
like or sounds like.
Atheism as a label one would use to describe one’s own belief in the non-existance of
God began in the sixteenth century.
The goal of many religious altered states of consciousness is to achieve a unitary state.
Entoptic phenomena are images of anthropomorphic animals.
Marijuana is considered as a sacrament in the Native American Church.
The commandant to remember the Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments. Sabbath
rituals are therefore prescribed rituals.
The observation of animal behavior or objects in the sky such as comets is called
omens.
Shamans are frequently individuals who are driven to become shamans because of
illness including mental illness.
Revitalization rituals are the same thing as healing rituals.
The Christian New Testament contains an apocalyptic myth.
The routine embalming of bodies developed during the Civil War.