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REL 200—Study Guide for Test #2 This study guide is for your use in preparation for the test and will not be handed in. There will be true-false, matching, and multiple choice questions on the test. Note that true-false questions on the study guide may be reworded to have the opposite answer on the test, but multiple choice questions will remain the same. You may not have time to refer to your study guide during the test, so working through it and studying it before the test will help you complete the test more easily. Religion and People of African Descent 1. True or False? In general, African indigenous religions don’t have a supreme, creator god. 2. True or False? In traditional African religions, the world of the spirits and the world of humans are believed to be closely intertwined. 3. Which of the following is true about spirit possession in indigenous African religions? a. People communicate with spirits through the possessed person. b. Women are more likely to become possessed than men. c. Spirit possession is always viewed as an act of the devil. d. Both a and b are true. 4. In traditional African religions, what is a medium? a. a person who mediates disputes b. a person who becomes possessed by a spirit and can speak for that spirit c. a person who casts spells d. the ghost of a person who has died 5. True or False? Enslaved African Muslim men were usually able to read and write Arabic. 6. Enslaved Muslims stood out from other enslaved Africans for all of the following reasons EXCEPT . . . a. they dressed differently. b. they would not eat after dark. c. they would not eat pork. d. they prayed differently. 7. How did enslaved Muslims challenge European Americans’ ideas about Africans’ racial and cultural inferiority? a. They demonstrated they were educated, intelligent, moral people. b. They showed they were physically stronger than most White people. c. They spoke English fluently and with sophistication. d. They would beat White people at the game of chess. 8. True or False? Enslaved Muslims resisted the dehumanization and oppression of slavery by keeping their Muslim practices, beliefs, and names. 9. Which of the following is one reason Islam did not last as a religious tradition among enslaved Black people in the United States? a. Enslaved Muslims weren’t allowed to pray during the day.

b. Enslaved Muslims were unable to form communities to keep their religious system alive. c. Too many enslaved Muslims died from fasting too much. d. The enslaved Muslims forgot which direction Mecca was in. 10. Why were some British slaveholders in the North American colonies reluctant to have their slaves convert to Christianity and be baptized? a. They thought becoming Christian would raise the slaves’ self-esteem and make them think they were equal to White people. b. They thought it might encourage slaves to rebel or to demand their freedom. c. Including Africans in their faith communities would blur the cultural and social distinctions needed to maintain slavery. d. All of the above 11. What was a common reason many enslaved Africans were not interested in converting to Christianity before the advent of the first Great Awakening? a. They couldn’t read the Bible. b. They had to sit in the front of the church. c. They wanted to maintain the religious beliefs and rituals of their African ancestors. d. They couldn’t tolerate worshiping with White people. 12. Drawing upon a key story in the Hebrew Bible, the Puritans saw North America as the Promised Land. However, for Africans brought here as slaves, North America was symbolically the land of ___________________. 13. All of the following were features of the revivals of the Great Awakenings EXCEPT . . . a. dramatic conversion experiences. b. an emphasis on the spiritual equality of all believers. c. an emphasis on church doctrine. d. dramatic preaching. 14. True or False? The revivalist preachers of the Great Awakenings made Christianity appealing to both poor White people and Black people. 15. Which of the following was NOT true of the camp meetings of the Second Great Awakening? a. It was common for people to fall down, shout, and raise their arms during worship services. b. People gathered at a church building and camped in tents on the church’s lawn. c. It was common for trumpet blasts to summon people to different activities. d. They gave people living on the frontier a chance to socialize. 16. True or False? The biblical story of the Exodus gave enslaved people hope that God would free them from slavery. 17. During the era of the Second Great Awakening, what two Protestant traditions or groups were the most welcoming and attractive to African Americans? a. Quakers and Baptists b. Baptists and Methodists c. Anglicans and Methodists d. Presbyterians and Anglicans

18. True or False? One reason the camp meetings and revivals of the Second Great Awakening appealed to enslaved Africans was that they allowed them to integrate traditional African religious practices with Christian ones. 19. Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of enslaved people’s conversion experiences? a. The experiences often began with a feeling of great sinfulness. b. Enslaved people commonly envisioned being damned to hell. c. The experiences were experiences of rebirth and being made new. d. The experiences always took place during a worship service. 20. Which of the following elements of traditional African worship was NOT found in the camp meeting services of Black people? a. Being possessed by a spirit b. Appeals to ancestral spirits c. Call-and-response singing d. Dancing 21. True or False? During the era of slavery, Methodists would grant Black men licenses to preach. 22. True or False? Black members of St. George’s Methodist Church in Philadelphia left that congregation because it refused to serve communion to Black congregants. 23. What denomination did Richard Allen help form and which he served as its first bishop? a. African Methodist Episcopal Church b. African Baptist Church c. Union Church of Africans d. African Episcopal Church 24. True or False? During the first half of the 19th century, Black women’s calls to preach or exhort often involved seeing visions and hearing divine voices speaking to them. 25. True or False? During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Black women preachers formed their own congregations and didn’t travel much. 26. Jarena Lee felt she was called to . . . a. start women’s prayer circles. b. preach. c. visit people in prison and pray for them. d. go to Africa and bring people to Christ. 27. True or False? Albert Raboteau has called the religion of enslaved Black people an “invisible institution” because of all their organized rituals devoted to worshiping unseen spirits. 28. During the antebellum period, independent Black churches did which of the following? a. Paid for poor people to be buried b. Taught Black people how to read and write c. Tried to stop discrimination against free Black people d. Worked to abolish slavery in the South e. All of the above

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