SHS History · Year 1
Indigenous Religious Practices in Pre-Colonial Ghana practice questions
The nature and features of indigenous Ghanaian religion -- belief in a Supreme Being, ancestral worship, gods and spirits, animism, rituals, sacred spaces, witchcraft, magic and divination -- and the roles of religious leaders and women within it.
26 questions in this topic: 3 recall, 12 applying skills and concepts, 9 strategic thinking and 2 extended thinking. Every one carries a written explanation.
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- Question 1Strategic thinking
According to Evans-Pritchard's conception of witchcraft, cited in the Learner Material, a defining feature of witchcraft (unlike the priesthood of the gods) is that a witch
- adid not perform any rites, make sacrifices or recite spells or incantations
- bperformed rites, made sacrifices and recited spells to gain power
- cwas always formally initiated by a chief
- drequired a temple and congregation to be effective
- Question 2Strategic thinking
Among the patrilineal Tallensi, witchcraft was believed to be transmitted through the
- afather's clan exclusively
- bparamount chief's lineage
- csoog, or uterine kinship
- dWulomo priesthood
- Question 3Recall
Sacred groves, shrines, and specific trees, rivers and mountains in pre-colonial Ghana were all examples of
- alocations reserved exclusively for Islamic worship
- bplaces where witchcraft was formally outlawed
- cneutral zones with no ritual protocols
- dsacred spaces holding special spiritual significance
- Question 4Extended thinking
A student argues that indigenous Ghanaian religion had no system of morality because it lacked a single written sacred text. Based on the Learner Material's description of religious leaders as moral and ethical guides, this argument is best described as
- acorrect, since morality requires a written text
- bflawed, since religious leaders upheld societal morality and customs and punished offenders of taboos without needing a written text
- ccorrect, since taboos had no religious basis
- dflawed, since morality in Ghana came only from Islam and Christianity
- Question 5Skills & concepts
Pre-colonial Ghanaians believed that death was not the end of human beings, and buried the dead with gold dust, gold ornaments and precious beads mainly because they believed
- agold could ward off witches from the funeral
- bonly wealthy families were permitted burial rites
- cthese items would be needed in the spirit world
- dthe items would be inherited by the eldest son immediately
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