Religion MCQ

_______ serve as blood-volume reservoirs because of their ability to stretch and store blood.

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Correct Answer: Veins

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Roman catholic and orthodox christians regard ___________ as having equal authority with scripture.

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Correct Answer: Traditions

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_______________ often teach practical lessons about everyday living.

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Correct Answer: Wisdom Psalms

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Witchcraft is the ability to ______ others by harboring malevolent thoughts about them.

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Correct Answer: Harm

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Wiccan is a member of a new religion that claims descent from _____ nature worship.

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Correct Answer: Prechristian

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Vitalistic means looking toward the creation of a utopian future that resembles a past golden age.

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Correct Answer: False

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Vision Quest is a practice common among many native _____ groups in which individuals seek to achieve direct contact with the supernatural.

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Correct Answer: American

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A supernatural entity that does not act in the best interests of humans is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Trickster

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Religious practices centered on animals, plants, or other aspects of the natural world held to be ancestral or to have other intimate relationships with members of a group refer to_____

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Correct Answer: Totemism

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Totem is an _____ held to be ancestral or to have other intimate relationships with members of a group.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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The merging of elements of two or more religious traditions to produce a new religion is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Syncretism

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Sorcery is the _____ use of magic.

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Correct Answer: Conscious and intentional

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An individual who is socially recognized as having the ability to mediate between the world of humanity and the world of gods or spirits and a recognized official of any religious organization is known as Shaman.

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Correct Answer: False

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Sacrifice is an offering made to _____

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Correct Answer: Both

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Stories held to be holy and true by members of a religious tradition are known as_____

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Correct Answer: Sacred Narratives

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A patterned act that involves the manipulation of religious symbols is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Ritual

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A ritual that marks a person’s transition from one status to another is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Rites of Passage

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Rituals structured to reinforce the values and norms of a community and to strengthen group identity refer to_____

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Correct Answer: Rites of Intensification

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Religion is a social institution characterized by_____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Priest is the one who is formally elected or appointed to a _____ religious office.

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Correct Answer: Full time

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Prayer is any communication between people and spirits or gods in which people _____ without assurance of results.

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Correct Answer: Any of these

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_____ is characterized by belief in many gods.

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Correct Answer: Polytheist

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Pharmacopoeia is a collection of preparations used as_____

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Correct Answer: Medications

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Neopagan is a member of a new religion that claims descent from _____nature worship.

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Correct Answer: Prechristian

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Focusing on the return of society to an earlier time that believers understand as better and more holy than the current era is known as______

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Correct Answer: Nativistic

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Sacred stories or narratives are known as_____

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Correct Answer: Myths

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Monotheistic is characterized by belief in _____ god.

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Correct Answer: One

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Millenarian means focusing on ______

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Messianic means focusing on the coming of an individual who will usher in a _____ world.

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Correct Answer: Utopian

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Mana is a _____ power or energy that is concentrated in individuals or objects.

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Correct Answer: Religious

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The belief that _____ compel the supernatural to behave in predictable ways is known as Magic.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Liminal refers to objects, places, people, and statuses that are understood as existing in an indeterminate state between clear-cut categories.

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Correct Answer: True

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The belief that imitating an action in a religious ritual will cause the action to happen in the material world is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Imitative Magic

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God is a named spirit who is believed to_____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Ghost Dance is a Native _____ religious movement of the late 19th century.

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Correct Answer: American

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Divination is a religious ritual performed to _____

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Correct Answer: Both b and c

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Cosmology is a system of beliefs that deals with fundamental questions in the _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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The belief that things once in contact with a person or object retain an invisible connection with that person or object is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Contagious Magic

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Communitas is a state of perceived _____ among people sharing a religious ritual, often characterized by intense emotion.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The socially sanctioned use of behavior that radically follows social norms is known as Antistructure.

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Correct Answer: False

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Animism is the notion that_____, are imbued with spirits.

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Correct Answer: Both

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Belief in an impersonal spiritual force that infuses the universe is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Animatism

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Which of the following is an example of communitas?

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Correct Answer: People who gather on New Year’s Eve to watch the falling of the illuminated ball in the center of Times Square

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What happens in syncretism?

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Correct Answer: The religious beliefs from two different traditions are merged in practice.

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Found in many Native American religious traditions, what is the purpose of a vision quest?

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Correct Answer: For a person to develop a special relationship with a spirit

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______ is a ritual practice directed toward obtaining information from the supernatural realm.

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Correct Answer: Divination

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What is the distinguishing feature of “prosperity theology” compared to other strands of Christianity?

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Correct Answer: That followers believe that by giving money away God will reward you with more money

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When an item that has been in contact with a person retains a religious magical connection to that person, anthropologists would call that connection ______.

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Correct Answer: Contagious magic

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Totemism is commonly associated with which of the following religious traditions?

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Correct Answer: Australian Aborigines

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A rite of passage marks what kind of transition in someone’s life?

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Correct Answer: A change in status

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Among Latin American Catholics, the celebration of a quinceañera happens when a young girl turns 15. What sort of ritual would an anthropologist label this as?

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Correct Answer: Rite of passage

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Liminal states are most closely associated with which of the following?

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Correct Answer: A short period of equality among equals.

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Something that is liminal in relation to religion is said to be ______.

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Correct Answer: Existing between clear cut categories

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When followers of a religion believe that an impersonal spiritual force influences the universe it is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Mana

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The Hopi grow blue corn, a practice that reinforces their idea of how their world was created. What is it about growing blue corn that connects them to their creation myth?

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Correct Answer: Their origin story states that they grew out of the earth like corn does.

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How does religion psychologically serve the poor or powerless?

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Correct Answer: Religion provides an escape or comfort.

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In Trinidad, the traditional belief is that failure to make a sacrifice to the di spirits will result in a______.

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Correct Answer: Poor harvest

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