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Tarot cards and the reading of palms are examples of:
a. mechanical type of divination
b. possession
c. omens
d. ordeals
A Korean shaman may be asked to:
a. guide the dead to the underworld
b. locate game for hunters
c. identify and remove layers of illness
d. travel along the Axis Mundi to the underworld
Which of the following event occurred in the case of the Zande co-wives?
a. The younger wife was identified as the witch by an ordeal.
b. The younger wife was beaten until she confesse
d.
c. The younger wife cooled her witchcraft by spitting water.
d. The husband was forced to divorce his younger wife because of witchcraft.
A series of witchcraft trials and executions took place in the late 17th century in the
United States, in the town of:
a. Lancaster
b. Salem
c. Concord
d. Springfield
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
Religiously based causes of illness include:
a. soul loss
b. witchcraft
c. spirit intrusion
d. all of the above
The term supernatural refers to:
a. an attitude of reverence and respect
b. a belief in spirit beings such as spirits and gods
c. belief in a general supernatural force
d. things that are above the natural and not subject to the laws of nature
The Ghost Dance of 1890:
a. was begun by a Paiute prophet Wovoka
b. promised the return of the ancestors and the disappearance of the dominant society
c. is an example of a nativistic movement
d. all of the above
An example of a legend would be:
a. the voyage of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower
b. the story of Little Red Riding Hood
c. the story of Noah and the ark
d. all of the above
The earliest examples of the American custom of embalming and the establishment of
the first military cemeteries took place during the:
a. Revolutionary War
b. French and Indian War
c. Civil War
d. World War I
Who wrote, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature"?
a. Edward Tylor
b. Bronislaw Malinowski
c. Karl Marx
d. Sigmund Freud
Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski are representative of proponents of the:
a. structural analysis of myth
b. psychological analysis of myth
c. functional analysis of myth
d. evolutionary analysis of myth
Examples of practices that can be labeled shamanism that are found in today's American
society are:
a. Pentecostal healers
b. Neoshamans
c. clown doctors
d. all of the above
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
The orisha are an example of:
a. otiose gods
b. spirit beings
c. attribute gods
d. trickster gods
The Yanomam believe in:
a. several different souls that have different destinations after death
b. a single immortal soul that recycles from grandparent to grandchild
c. a perfect afterlife only for those people free of sin
d. the necessity of burial to preserve the soul for a coming new world
Two main ways that anthropologists organize societies are by:
a. culture area and food getting strategies
b. level of religious complexity and gender stratification
c. gender ratio and child rearing strategies
d. kinship system and language spoken
The swastika represents:
a. Nazi Germany
b. the Navaho whirling log
c. the feet of Buddha
d. all of the above
A feeling that something is about to happen, such as an impending disaster, is known as:
a. necromancy
b. a presentiment
c. apantomancy
d. dowsing
Which of the following statements is true?
a. The symbolic nature of color is universal; white is worn by brides in all societies.
b. All societies recognize the same basic color categories.
c. Different colors are associated with different emotional states.
d. All of the above statements are true.
Herbalists are:
a. healers
b. prophets
c. diviners
d. witches
Wade Davis believes that from an etic perspective, Haitain zombies really:
a. did not exist
b. have been given a powder containing tetrodotoxin
c. were in it for the fame and wealth
d. were animated from the dead to work in the fields
Units of time that are not based upon astronomical movements include the:
a. week
b. day
c. year
d. month
All of the following statements about the African Burial Ground are correct except:
a. most of the remains are those of adults
b. the cemetery dates to the 1700s
c. individuals were buried in coffins
d. the bodies were buried with their heads oriented to the west so that on the Judgment
Day they will sit up and face the rising sun
Which of the following anthropologists is most closely associated with the functionalist
approach?
a. Melford Spiro
b. Edward Tyler
c. Alfred Radcliff-Brown
d. Bronislaw Malinowski
The term witchcraft has several meanings. Which of the following is not an example of
witchcraft?
a. a sorcerer using evil magic to kill a member of his or her own community
b. a 17th century heretic being executed by the church for hearsay
c. a person accused of willing death in another person
d. all of the above are examples of witchcraft
Which of the following would not be an appropriate task for an anthropologist?
a. translating a religious text in the Navaho language
b. excavating the ruins of a Mayan temple
c. filming an American religious ceremony
d. studying the chimpanzees of the Gombe National Park
e. all of the above would be appropriate tasks
When an Inuit hunter kills a seal, fresh water is placed in the mouth of the seal. This is
an example of a:
a. hunting & gathering rite of intensification
b. rite of passage
c. therapeutic ritual
d. revitalization ritual
The practice of justifying beliefs and actions by reference to religious texts held to be
inerrant is:
a. totalism
b. scripturalism
c. traditioning
d. agnosticism
The survival of culture traits often occurs when they are fused together with new,
introduced traits. Thus a contemporary Australian aborigine band will preserve their
traditional songs and instruments by creating music that incorporates elements from the
dominant culture, such as drums and guitars. This is an example of:
a. diffusion
b. assimilation
c. syncretism
d. revitalization
Vodou in Haiti grew out of the:
a. the religions of West Africa
b. Catholicism
c. Freemasonry
d. all of the above
The story of crocodiles living in the sewers of New York City is an example of a:
a. historical fact
b. urban legend
c. myth
d. folktale
Vodou resembles in many ways traditional West African religions in that Vodou is
characterized by:
a. pantheon of intermediary deities
b. spirit possession
c. offerings placed on altars
d. all of the above
Peyote is used in rituals of:
a. the Holiness Church
b. the Native American Church
c. Vodou
d. San
The hajj is a pilgrimage that is a central part of the Islamic religion.
A symbol associated with the Church of Satan and Wicca is the pentagram.
Animatism refers to the idea of an impersonal supernatural force.
Among the Australian Aborigines, increase rituals are rituals designed to increase one's
personal wealth.
Revitalization rituals are the same thing as healing rituals.
Problems such as drug addiction frequently accompany religious drug use.
The Golden Bough is an example of an origin story.
