Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions

1		How did Raymond Firth refer to rituals?
			A)	as a means for achieving communitas.
			B)	as behaviors that communicate ideas that are not to be said in ordinary language.
			C)	as the religious means for mobilizing supernatural power.
			D)	as behaviors that induce trance.
2		When Wallace said that rituals have "no information value," he meant all of the following EXCEPT:
			A)	they convey no new information that is not already available to their participants.
			B)	they are sequences whose order is known in advance by most participants.
			C)	they do not communicate anything.
			D)	they do not reduce uncertainty.
3		What social functions do rites of passage play?
			A)	They help maintain stability and order in society.
			B)	They help a society to achieve a new stability.
			C)	They symbolically dramatize crisis events in an individual's life.
			D)	They help the individual recognize the importance of adopting new habits in his or her new social role.
4		According to folklorist Barre Toelkin, the four levels of meaning in Navajo Coyote Stories include all of the following uses of the stories EXCEPT:
			A)	for entertainment
			B)	to convey moral homilies
			C)	to define orthodoxy
			D)	to heal the sick
5		By "Ultimate Sacred Postulates", Rappaport meant:
			A)	the highest religious orders.
			B)	the most sacred beliefs of a religion that define the essential basis for the rest of its ideology.
			C)	an outline of all of the basic beliefs of a religion.
			D)	any formal set of doctrines that must be learned before a believer is accepted as a full-status follower of a religion.
6		According to Anthony Wallace, technological rituals are rituals that are intended to:
			A)	make the tools people use last longer.
			B)	improve human health.
			C)	change people's values.
			D)	control various aspects of nature.
7		Which of the following is true of divination:
			A)	It is ritual used to gain information.
			B)	It is ritual used to make someone sacred.
			C)	It is found only in the simplest of societies.
			D)	It is found only in the more complex societies.
8		Which of the following is NOT true of taboos?
			A)	They create a social identity for those who follow them.
			B)	They can be thought of as a kind of "anti-ritual".
			C)	They were a prominent part of religious life in Polynesia.
			D)	They are not found in the Judeo-Christian traditions.
9		The social function of a Jewish Bar or Bas Mitzvah is:
			A)	to introduce a rabbi to a congregation.
			B)	to establish that a person has become old enough to be responsible for following the religious commandments of Judaism.
			C)	to determine guilt or innocence.
			D)	to cure the sick.
10		According to the text, pilgrimage typically has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:
			A)	Pilgrimage is travel that is undertaken as a form of religious devotion.
			B)	Pilgrimage is found within Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
			C)	Pilgrimage is always practiced in groups.
			D)	Pilgrimage typically involves visits to sacred places.