Family and Religious Studies Paper 1 November 2020

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Adeparted elders of the person's own family line
2. Bspirits of strangers who died far away from home
3. Cspirits of people wronged in life who demand redress
4. Dspirits of the clan's territory consulted about rain

1. Aconsults a diviner to name the spirit and then holds a ceremony to accept it
2. Bwaits a full year and then buries the spirit's regalia at the family grave
3. Casks another host of the same spirit to take the newcomer on as an apprentice
4. Dsends the host to the chief's court to have the gift recorded

1. Athe gift is believed to pass to a rival family if it is left unused
2. Brefusing to use the gift is believed to bring illness and repeated misfortune
3. Cthe diviner who first identified the spirit may reclaim the fee that was paid
4. Dthe chief imposes a fine in cattle on any household that ignores a spirit

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Azunde ramambo
2. Bchisi
3. Chumwe
4. Dnhimbe

1. Amonthly sermons delivered by a diviner at the family's grave site
2. Bfolktales, proverbs and riddles told by elders in the evening
3. Cwritten codes of conduct kept by the village head for each family
4. Da yearly examination set for children by the chief's council of elders

1. Athe values place duties on children but impose none at all on adults
2. Bstrong obligation towards relatives can turn into nepotism in public office
3. Cthe values were introduced by colonial administrators and have no local roots
4. Dthe values say nothing about honesty, so dishonesty goes entirely unchecked

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Akuzvarira
2. Bmusengabere
3. Cchimutsamapfihwa
4. Dkugara nhaka

1. Adenies a girl her education, her health and her free consent
2. Brequires the payment of lobola in cash rather than in cattle
3. Cis recognised in customary law but not in any written statute
4. Dprevents the husband's family from paying mombe youmai in full

1. Athe custom prevails in communal areas and the right prevails in the towns
2. Bthe chief's court decides which of the two is to be applied in each case
3. Cthe two are treated as equal and the older of the two is applied first
4. Dthe custom gives way, since the Bill of Rights binds customary law too

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aa ceremony held to bring a spirit home a year after burial
2. Ba fine in cattle imposed for felling a protected fruit tree
3. Ca day each week on which no one may work the land
4. Da pool from which water may not be drawn with a metal container

1. Athe chief allocates each clan a hunting season for its own totem animal
2. Btotem animals are kept within the sacred grove and fed by the village
3. Ceach clan is forbidden to kill or eat the animal that is its totem
4. Da totem animal may be hunted only with the permission of the medium

1. Athe Environmental Management Act made all of the older practices unlawful
2. Bsacred groves were surveyed and found to hold no species of value
3. Ctraditional leaders were given no role in land matters after 1980
4. Dthe beliefs and sanctions behind them are no longer shared by everyone

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Apayment of the healer's full fee in cattle or in grain
2. Bthe burning of the patient's clothing outside the homestead
3. Cdivination to establish what has caused the illness
4. Da period of fasting kept by the whole of the household

1. Awashing the patient in water that has been treated with herbs
2. Bcutting small incisions in the skin and rubbing medicine into them
3. Cinhaling the steam of boiled herbs while covered with a blanket
4. Ddrinking a decoction made from boiled roots and pieces of bark

1. Asteaming is believed to work only if the patient has fasted beforehand
2. Ba decoction of roots loses its effect if it is taken with food
3. Cdivination obliges the patient to travel to a distant shrine before treatment
4. Da blade used for skin incisions on several patients can spread infection

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Asending gifts ahead of him and then meeting Lot face to face
2. Btaking the dispute to the elders at the gate of the nearest city
3. Cdividing the flocks equally and then casting lots for the water wells
4. Doffering Lot the first choice of land and then separating from him

1. Areading the law of Moses aloud in the presence of the whole court
2. Brefusing to enter the palace until David had confessed in public
3. Csending a written charge to the elders who sat at the city gate
4. Dtelling him a parable about a rich man and a poor man's ewe lamb

1. Arestoring the two parties to a working relationship with each other
2. Breferring every dispute to the king so that he can give a judgment
3. Crequiring both parties to bring an offering before any hearing begins
4. Dremoving the weaker party from the community for a fixed period

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aabandon the ploughing of the fields during the year of drought
2. Brelease the Hebrew slaves that had been taken back into service
3. Csubmit to the king of Babylon rather than resist him
4. Dmourn the death of King Josiah in the battle at Megiddo

1. Atearing a new garment into twelve pieces in front of an official
2. Bdrawing the city on a clay brick and laying siege to the brick
3. Cwalking stripped and barefoot through the streets for three years
4. Dsmashing a clay jar in the valley before the elders and the priests

1. Asymbolic actions were used only by prophets attached to the royal court
2. Bordinary people were forbidden to watch a prophet perform such a sign
3. Cprophets who contradicted each other used the same methods
4. Dthe law of Moses forbade any prophet to perform a sign in public

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aresident alien, the fatherless and the widow
2. Blabourer, the debtor and the servant bound for a term
3. Cfarmer, the potter and the shepherd of the hill country
4. Dpriest, the prophet and the elder who sat in the city gate

1. ABeersheba
2. BBethel
3. CShiloh
4. DSinai

1. Ait praises the temple ritual and asks for no change in people's conduct
2. Bit calls for covenant faithfulness rather than ordinary civic duties
3. Cit makes no mention at all of justice between one person and another
4. Dit was delivered privately to the king and never heard by the people

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Aget
2. Bmikveh
3. Cyichud
4. Dchuppah

1. Aa reminder of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem
2. Ba warning that the marriage can be ended only by a written get
3. Ca mark of the seven days of celebration that now begin
4. Da sign that the couple's two former households are now dissolved

1. Aa wife who leaves the marital home forfeits her claim under the ketubah
2. Bonly the husband can grant the get, so a refusal leaves the wife bound
3. Ca marriage held without ten witnesses is treated as never having occurred
4. Da marriage contracted without a ketubah cannot afterwards be dissolved

Answer this when you sit the paper.

1. Areap right into the corners of a field at harvest
2. Bcut down fruit trees when besieging a city
3. Cmuzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain
4. Dtake a mother bird together with her young

1. Athe law of the mother bird, which protects the breeding stock
2. Bkilayim, which forbids the sowing of mixed seed in one field
3. Corlah, which forbids the fruit of a tree in its first three years
4. Dthe gleaning laws, which leave part of the harvest for the poor

1. Aindigenous Zimbabwean custom contains nothing that resembles them
2. Bthe laws apply only to people in towns and not to those who farm
3. Cthe laws contain no provision at all about land, trees or animals
4. DZimbabwe is a secular state and cannot enact one religion's law