Which of the following is considered a function of death rituals?
a. Isolating those grieving from the rest of society
b. Expressing personal grievances towards the departed c. Increasing the mystery surrounding death
d. Providing a social context for expressions of grief
Question 2Which of the following cultures teaches that there is a day each year when the dead return to their home for a visit?
a. Estonian
b. Scottish
c. Navajo
d. Bantu
Question 3In which of the following cultures do people believe that a person's spirit enters a small flame that is placed in the sea as a signal to the spirit to leave the attachments of the earthly life and begin the transition to the afterlife?
a. Eastern Orthodox
b. Hindu
c. Muslim
d. Catholic
Question 4In which culture do people believe that everything a person creates has some part of the person's spirit in that creation?
a. Estonian
b. Mexican
c. Navajo
d. Hindu
Question 5Many people in culture believe that the ancestors are always with them.
a. Brazilian
b. Canadian c. French
d. Japanese
Question 6People in most cultures believe that
a. the death of a person is the end of their existence.
b. there is a spiritual component of a person's being that continues after the body decomposes or burns.
c. the spirit remains in the location where death occurred.
d. a person's spirit returns in the birth of a new child in that culture.
Question 7Which of the following statements about death-related rituals is most accurate?
a. Cremation is typically associated with a belief in the liberation of the spirit. b. Burial is associated with liberation from society.
c. Burial is only used in Eastern societies.
d. Cremation is used as a punishment for evil deeds.
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