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Question 1:

According to Derry, which of the following elements is important for interpreting oral accounts rooted in Indigenous traditions?
a) Objectivity
b) Truth
c) Context
d) Authenticity

Question 2:

Which of the following is true about the term “Indigenous”?
a) It is universally defined.
b) It is open to interpretation.
c) It is restricted to scholarly use.
d) It is used in reference to extinct cultures and peoples.

Question 3:

Which of the following is true about the practice of agriculture amongst the Mohawk people?
a) It was introduced by Europeans.
b) It was never adopted successfully.
c) It was well established prior to contact with non-Indigenous people.
d) It was not feasible due to climate.

Question 4:

When was the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted?
a) 1947
b) 1998
c) 2001
d) 2007

Question 5:

In the Kewa culture what do the terms ramani and lidi, respectively, differentiate between?
a) Taboo and sacred
b) True stories and fictional tales
c) Women and men
d) Past and future

Question 6:

With which geographical region are the origin stories of the “Earth Diver” genre associated?
a) North America
b) South America
c) Africa
d) Oceania

Question 7:

Within which culture is Amma venerated as the Supreme Being?
a) Maori
b) Navajo
c) Dogon
d) Iroquois

Question 8:

According to Derry, what might be a more accurate translation, (than that of “the Dreaming” used by nineteenth-century anthropologists), for describing Aborigines’ notions of the time and place that preceded their own?
a) The time of the ancestors
b) The in-between time
c) Dawn of the earth
d) The Uncreated

Question 9:

What is the name of the “trickster” figure from the Yoruba tradition?
a) Nanabush
b) Eshu
c) Coyote
d) Tortoise

Question 10:

What does the “Bighorn Medicine Wheel” refer to?
a) A Cheyenne healer's traditional necklace
b) An oral story describing the curing of a famine from the Sioux tradition
c) A concept of circular time
d) A sacred ritual site

Question 11:

What does the term “liminal” denote?
a) An in-between state of existence
b) The state of the world before the emergence of human beings
c) The state of Indigenous cultures prior to contact with non-Indigenous peoples
d) The status of a full member of an Indigenous community

Question 12:

What was the purpose of the Ainu bear sacrifice ritual?
a) To gain protection from disease
b) To signal the beginning of warfare
c) To release the spirit of the Mountain God
d) To signal an end to hostilities

Question 13:

In Maori culture all weavers are traditionally what?
a) Elders
b) Female
c) Male
d) Unmarried

Question 14:

Totem poles are traditionally associated with which Indigenous cultures?
a) The Nuer and the Dogon
b) The Iroquois and the Cree
c) The Haisla, Nisga’a, and Tsimshian
d) All North American Indigenous people

Question 15:

Where are Maori carvings traditionally displayed?
a) In the ancestral meeting house
b) On the shoreline
c) In sacred groves
d) In a shaman’s house

Question 16:

What was the ultimate result of the encounter between Columbus and the Arawak people?
a) New trade relations were formed
b) The Arawak’s assimilated to Spanish culture
c) The Arawak’s expelled the Spaniards from their island
d) A genocide of the Arawak people and culture at the hands of the Spanish invaders

Question 17:

The use of Indigenous symbols, or terms, by non-Indigenous peoples for marketing purposes are examples of what cultural phenomenon?
a) Tribute
b) Appropriation
c) Re-imagination
d) Revitalization

Question 18:

Among which Indigenous peoples did the Handsome Lake movement develop?
a) The Maori
b) The Haida
c) The Iroquois
d) The Crow

Question 19:

What ritual activity was promoted by the Paiute religious leader Wovoka in the late nineteenth century?
a) Potlatch
b) Sun Dance
c) Sweat Lodge
d) Ghost Dance

Question 20:

Within which Indigenous culture is the Blessingway ceremony performed?
a) Navajo
b) Iroquois
c) Cree
d) Sioux

Higher Education

World Religions: Western Traditions, Fourth Edition—Chapter 6