Paper 1 · Heritage, Taboos and Totems
A religious prohibition on an act, a word, a food or a place, believed to bring misfortune or ancestral punishment on whoever breaks it, is called a ............ .
Model answer
taboo
Also accepted: chiera, zviera, muyera, isila
Explanation: Taboos regulate conduct in Indigenous Religion without any written law: the prohibition itself carries the sanction, since breaking it is believed to bring illness, drought, madness or death until a cleansing ritual is performed.
Derived from ZIMSEC Family and Religious Studies 4047/1, Specimen Paper (filename says "MID YEAR EXAM 2022" but every page's footer reads "ZIMSEC SPECIMEN PAPER"; genuine ZIMSEC content, locally relabelled copy), Q1