Anthropology 305 - Anthropology of Religion » Fall 2019 » Quiz 3

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Question #1
The story of Snow White is not a religious story because it does not involve the sacred supernatural and is not the basis of ritual.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #2
Religious texts often change through time because they are often transmitted orally or subject to new translations.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #3
Claude Levi-Strauss analyzed the structure of myths and pointed out that humans tend to categorize the world in terms of binary opposites.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #4
Émile Durkheim used a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of myth and focused on the impact of myth on social structure.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #5
Proponents of the psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of myth see such stories as the Oedipus story as manifestations of the collective unconscious.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #6
In every society there are particular ways in which people perceive and interpret their reality. This is what is meant by the concept of:
A.   sacred
B.   supernatural
C.   worldview
D.   culture
Question #7
Ritual texts and origin myths:
A.   are social charters that sets forth the organization of human relationships
B.   All of these answers are correct.
C.   explain the origins of humans and the world
D.   often contain multiple versions of the same story
Question #8
Myths differ from folktales in that:
A.   myths reflect the worldview and folktales do not
B.   myths occur in all societies while folktales occur in only nonliterate societies
C.   myths with the supernatural and folktales do not
D.   myths are recounted in ritual and folktales are not
Question #9
The evolutionary school in the nineteenth century associated myths with:
A.   full modernity
B.   the transition to modern times
C.   the future
D.   the “primitive period” 
Question #10
Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski are representative of proponents of the:
A.   psychological analysis of myth
B.   structural analysis of myth     
C.   functional analysis of myth
D.   evolutionary analysis of myth
Question #11
A proposed relationship between early childhood experiences and adult projection systems like myths is characteristic of which analytic approach?
A.   psychoanalytic analysis
B.   functional analysis      
C.   structural analysis
D.   evolutionary analysis
Question #12
Jung believed that humans share inborn elements of the unconscious that are manifested in myths.  He called this the:
A.   hive mind
B.   symbolic ancestry
C.   collective unconscious
D.   unconscious unified
Question #13
The Navaho story Diné Bahanè is an example of a(n):
A.   urban legend
B.   origin story
C.   apocalyptic myth
D.   trickster myth
Question #14
The Book of Revelations in the New Testament is an example of a(n):
A.   origin story
B.   apocalyptic myth
C.   urban legend
D.   trickster story
Question #15
A god or deity who gave humans important things by accident or through deception is known as a(n):
A.   creator god
B.   demon
C.   trickster
D.   hero

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