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Fact Finder


This activity contains 13 questions.

	When using the word "Primitive" in referring to archaic and tribal religions the best sense should be taken to mean   Simply unsophisticated (Archaic and tribal religions demonstrate high levels of sophistication) Barbarian ("Barbarian" implies a value judgement that eliminates the phenomenological quest for empathy and understanding) Primary, or first among the developments of religion Savage ("Savage" implies a value judgment that eliminates the phenomenological quest for empathy and understanding)

	Which of the following is not characteristic of prehistoric religion?   Shamanism (Shamanism is perhaps the most prevalent religious pattern in prehistory) a feeling of affinity with the dead (This pervasive and tenacious tendency is called "the cult of the ancestors." high levels of literacy the feeling that everything is pervaded by spirit (This is so generally characteristic that it engendered a general theory of the origin of all religion as "animistic" by E. B. Tylor.)

	Which of the following terms was used by Eliade to refer to a religious worldview coextensive with archaic hunters and farmers as well as with some contemporary exponents?   cosmic religion Animistic New Age Historical religion

	What is the technical term for a "resting god"?   The "High God" deus otiosus Shaman The Lord of the Beasts

	Which of the following terms indicates a "rite of passage"?   Geomancy Taboo Initiation Ecstasy

	Although applied to the spiritual adepts in a wide variety of cultural contexts worldwide, which of the following is the actual origin of the word "Shaman"?   Alaskan Eskimo Japanese Mysticism Siberian Navajo

	Which of the following is associated with Hunter/Gatherers?   spiritual preparation, respect, and many responsibilities the desire for a "trophy" brutal and impersonal carnage techniques comparable to modern day slaughterhouses

	Which of the following reasons best accounts for the fact that it took over a million years for humans to invent agriculture?   Earlier humans were too stupid to figure it out. Earlier humans craved meat and could not handle a vegetarian diet. They had a vastly different worldview that deeply valued the existing relationship with animals and nature. They were less intelligent and lazy.

	Which of the following means "Old Stone Age"?   Megalithic Neolithic Paleolithic Mesolithic

	When was agriculture was invented?   After the Iron Age and the invention of the plow After the rise of the great cities In paleolithic times about 100, 000 years ago In neolithic times about 10, 000 years ago

	Who made the following statement: "Why bother to grow crops when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?"   The !Kung of the Kalahari desert A Native American who was being urged by the government to take up farming. Arctic Circle Eskimos A flower child from the sixties

	Which one of the following is the story of a young maiden who was spawned from the coconut a hunter found on the tusk of a boar he had killed? She was later chopped up and planted to become previously unknown types of food.   A story told by the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert A story told by the Jivaro of the upper Amazon The myth of Hainuwele as told in Indonesia. The story of Amaterasu in the Japanese Kojiki

	Which of the following best represents the controversial interpretations of the late Marija Gimbutas and others concerning the pervasive female symbolism present among archaic agriculturists?   that women were prominent, held a great deal of social power, and that there may have even been some matriarchal societies that women did not invent agriculture that goddess symbolism simply suggests the importance of fertility that women were thoroughly dominated by men at all times

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