RELI367 Exam Module 3
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Popular postural yoga began as...
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a counter-cultural movement.
a way to torture prisoners.
a hybridized product of colonial India.
a p
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RELI367 Exam Module 3
Question 1 (4 points)
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Popular postural yoga began as...
Question 1 options:
a counter-cultural movement.
a way to torture prisoners.
a hybridized product of colonial India.
a popular kids' TV show.
Question 2 (4 points)
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S.C. Vasu attempted to distinguish bad yoga from true yoga, which...
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was scientific and rational.
was a form of simple meditation.
was militant.
did not exist.
Question 3 (4 points)
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While traditional yoga texts focus on the subtle body, modern yoga manuals focus on the anatomical body.
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True
False
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Books on yoga from the colonial period never included any images.
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True
False
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Which of the following, linked cakras to the “Seals of the Apocalypse”?
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Genevieve Stebbins
Francois Delsarte
Mollie Bagot Stack
Cajzoran Ali
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Sūrynamaskār was...
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created by a bodybuilder as an exercise.
created by ancient Indian sages.
created to show everyone's connection with nature.
taught in the Vedas.
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Which yoga teacher was the younger brother of Yogananada and was a judge at the Mr. Universe contest?
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Yogendra
Yogacarya Sundaram
BC Ghosh
Ramesh Balsekar
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Which of the following was the founder of the dramatic form known as Delsartism?
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Genevieve Stebbins
Cajzoran Ali
Mollie Bagot Stack
Francois Delsarte
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Who was Eugene Sandow?
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a body builder
a Christian preacher
a professor
a Hindu guru
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As it became mainstream, yoga was a gendered phenomenon.
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True
False
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Yoga was first part of India-wide curriculum in the YMCA.
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True
False
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In 1689, John Ovington connects yogic postures to...
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asceticism
delusions of Satan
exercise
health
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Which yoga teacher started as a muscle contortionist and later incorporated New Thought into his yoga teachings?
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Yogendra
KV Iyer
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Swami Kuvalayananda
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Early European sources about yoga differentiate Hindu yogisand Muslim fakirs.
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True
False
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Why did the British create laws making yogis illegal?
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Yogis were often nude
They believed yogis had too great spiritual power
Yogis were often militant
They believed yogis engaged in witchcraft
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Photography was a colonial technology that supposedly "recreated the world 'as it is.'"
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True
False
Question 17 (4 points)
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What was used to document the yoga body during the colonial period?
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poetry
photography
prose
drawings
Question 18 (4 points)
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Which of the following helped usher in the “Oriental Dance Craze” that paved the way for modern yoga?
Question 18 options:
Genevieve Stebbins
Mollie Bagot Stack
Francois Delsarte
Cajzoran Ali
Question 19 (4 points)
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Which yoga teacher opened a Yoga Institute in New York and researched alongside health and hygiene researchers like John Harvey Kellogg?
Question 19 options:
Yogacarya Sundaram
BC Ghosh
Yogendra
Ramesh Balsekar
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Which of the following refers to a religious movement in the mid-1800s that emphasized the connection between mind and body?
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Muscular Christianity
Swoll Shaktism
Shredded Shaivism
Vascular Vaishnavism
Question 21 (20 points)
Discuss how Western ideas of the body shaped the development of modern yoga.
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