Grade Details - All Questions
Question 1. Feuds are most common as a means for legally redressing wrongs where
Student Answer:
fraternal groups work together, and share obligations.
work is shared by in-laws.
courts are powerful.
work is highly individualized.
Question 2. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor defined religion as
Student Answer:
a belief in God and the history of His relationship with the human race.
the belief in supernatural beings, such as ghosts, spirits, and gods.
the belief in supernatural power.
rituals designed to influence supernatural beings and powers.
Question 3. According to Otterbein, warfare involves greater mortality when the
Student Answer:
combatants have personal grudges.
combatants are motivated by obligations toward fraternal groups.
groups involved had more centrally organized political institutions.
groups involved had weakly organized military organizations and tactics.
Question 4. Which of the following is NOT true of religion as understood by Geertz?
Student Answer:
It helps people perceive the world as their value system says it should be.
It validates people's allegiance to their society and its culture.
It is the ultimate source of people's most deeply held feelings.
It is very different from secular political ideologies.
Question 5. Which of the following is NOT usually true of religious rituals?
Student Answer:
They commonly portray or act out important aspects of a religion's myths and cosmology.
Each ritual has one specific meaning for its participants.
They often express anxieties and preoccupations
They intend to mobilize supernatural forces to influence the natural world or human beings.
Question 6. Which of the following is NOT a major factor that helps maintain social order in most societies?
Student Answer:
Gossip
Rewards
Law
Education
Question 7. The defining characteristic of a state is which of the following?
Student Answer:
The presence of agriculture.
The presence of markets.
The monopoly by government of the right to use legal force.
The presence of governing authorities with power outside their own kinship group.
Question 8. Divination is best defined as
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a religious ritual to raise a deceased ancestor to divine status.
a religious ritual to obtain hidden knowledge.
a religious belief in divine presence in mundane things.
a religious belief in the divine presence in humans.
Question 9. Compared with societies that have shamanic religions, societies in which communal religions are common tend to have
Student Answer:
slightly smaller local groups.
slightly larger local groups.
similar sized local groups.
developed social classes.
Question 10. Which of the following is NOT controlled by the authority of the government in chiefdoms?
Student Answer:
Taxation
Drafting workers for public projects
Governing marriage and divorce
Waging wa