RELI 448 FINAL EXAM VERSION 2.Question and Answers

Question 1 Question : (TCO 1) The word religion literally means:
.

Student Answer: to bind.
meditate on.
worship.
rise above.




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Question 2.Question : (TCO 1) Belief in one God is called:



Student Answer: monotheism.
polytheism.
atheism.
agnosticism.




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Question 3 Question : (TCO 2) Who was the German theologian who argued in The Idea of the
. Holy that religions emerge when people experience that aspect of reality
which is essentially mysterious?



Student Answer: William James
Carl Gustav Jung
Rudolf Otto
E.B. Tylor




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Question 4 Question : (TCO 4) The French thinker who developed the approach of structuralism
. when he first recognized extraordinary structural similarities in stories told

, by tribal peoples of the Americas was:



Student Answer: Foucault.
Durkheim.
Derrida.
Levi­Strauss.




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Question 5.Question : (TCO 4) Name the American psychologist who viewed religion as positive
way of fulfilling needs and praised its positive influence on the lives of
individuals.



Student Answer: James Frazer
Carl Gustav Jung
E.B. Tylor
William James




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Question 6 Question : (TCO 8) Vedic religion was:
.

Student Answer: patriarchal and polytheistic.
matriarchal and polytheistic.
monotheistic.
monistic.




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Question 7 Question : (TCO 8) The power of a god is often symbolized by:
.