Practice Quiz Chapter 09

. All of the following statements about play are false except ________.

. The introduction of cricket to the Trobriand Islands illustrates ________.

. All of the following statements about art are false except ________.

. Myths are ________.

. The ritualization of behaviour is known as ________.

. According to Michelle Bigenho, the authenticity of an artwork can be determined through ________.

. A ritual ________.

. Alternative views of reality can be attained through ________.

. The Egyptian television series Hilmiyya Nights illustrates ________.

. All of the following statements about art and aesthetics are true except ________.

. Just like language, play has the characteristic of ________.

. ________ is the sort of everyday play that can universally act to ease tensions and reinforce existing social bonds among people.

. Edward T. Hall's theory about how we sense and use space and time is known as ________.

. While sports are well known for bringing people together it is also true that sports often encourage or require the ________ of men and women.

. Regardless of the sport, sports tends to exhibit the universal function of ________.

. Art is different from free play because its activities, like sport, are ________.

. The way Western art experts classifies non-Western art is generally ________.

. The strict adherence to certain interpretations of myth and religious practice is known as ________.

. Victor Turner labelled the stage of a rite of passage where things seem ambiguous as the ________ period.

. The central premise of play is ________.

. A ________ is not one of the four elements that make up the definition of ritual.

. Framing and reflexivity are two types of metacommunication used during rites of passage.

. In play, the two kinds of metacommunication are framing and reflexivity.

. Claude Lévi-Strauss argued that myths are arranged in ways that give melodic and harmonic coherence.

. The power of ritual comes from the connection it creates between the performers and the higher powers that sanction the ritual.

. Play, art, myth, and ritual are experienced independently from one another.

. Transformation-representation refers to the process through which audiences interpret and contextualize art.

. Myths allow societies to operate by restricting people to one unifying version of reality.

. The feeling of oneness associated with communitas can be experienced during play.

. The Gbagba dance of the Baule is an example of a rite of passage.

. Sport is often a site of gender segregation.

. Play is a consciously adopted and pleasurable state of activities.

. While joking behaviour can be considered ritual, it is not considered play.

. Myth involves the central characteristics of play and sport.

. Sport is an activity governed by game-like rules that are ritually patterned and agreed upon by participants.

. Many characteristics of hockey exhibit qualities like violence and aggression that runs counter to the Canadian national identity as it is outside of sport.

. Like free play, art has no rules at all.

. The art categories (fine art, folk art, ethnic art and craft) allow art experts to objectively classify human art.

. Art can be evaluated using a number of forms of authenticity.

. There is always an objective truth hidden somewhere behind a myth.

. Myths can often act as a charter for social action.

. In a secular, non-religious society there is no need for ritual.

. Rites of passage may exist without an overtly religious context.

. Play and art are often combined yet myth and ritual are never combined.

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