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Aboriginal Australian spiritualities

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Aboriginal spirituality is most closely linked to

a)

spirit

b)

land

c)

identity

d)

ownership

2.

True or false:

All objects are living and share the same soul.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The term 'kanyini' is best describe as

a)

stewardship

b)

Indigenous hierarchy

c)

everyone is responsible for each other

d)

a Dreaming story

4.

A key concept within Australian Aboriginal spirituality is

a)

reconciliation

b)

interconnectedness

c)

community

d)

revelation

5.

What is the purpose of songlines?

a)

describe the activities of creator spirit beings

b)

ceremonial expression

c)

sacred objects

d)

spirit beings linked to totemic sites

6.

What is cosmogony?

a)

interconnection between all beings

b)

anthropological spiritual connections

c)

a theory of story of the origin of the universe

d)

a belief in the visible and invisible

7.

Which of the following is not a descriptor of Aboriginal spirituality?

a)

animistic

b)

totemic

c)

earthly

d)

intergenerational

8.

Which Aboriginal belief(s) are most relevant to Rainbow Serpent?

a)

animism

b)

cosmology

c)

creation

d)

stewardship

9.

Why is stewardship so important to Australian Aboriginal spirituality?

a)

Aboriginal mobs own the land

b)

Dreaming heroes are linked to space and place

c)

Aboriginal beliefs are associated with the land

d)

earthly unconditional love

10.

Creation ancestors introduced the law of maintaining interdependence, taking responsibility for three groups. Which is not one of these groups?

a)

other people

b)

the land

c)

totems

d)

the ancestor spirits

11.

What is traditional lore?

a)

common features of acceptable behaviour

b)

the Indigenous formal court system

c)

stories focused on creation spirits

d)

a concept introduced by Europeans

12.

What key Indigenous belief is most strongly linked to Spirit Fingers?

a)

kinship

b)

lore

c)

stewardship

d)

animism

13.

Indigenous spirituality could best be described as

a)

monotheistic

b)

theosophical

c)

geosophical

d)

philosophical