Coming-of-age ceremonies worldwide
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Q 01In Jewish tradition, what is the coming-of-age ceremony for boys, typically celebrated when they turn 13?
- ABrit Milah
- BBar Mitzvah
- CRosh Chodesh
- DYom Kippur
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Bar Mitzvah
A Bar Mitzvah marks a Jewish boy's transition into religious adulthood at age 13, making him responsible for observing Jewish commandments. A similar ceremony for girls is called a Bat Mitzvah.
Q 02Which celebration marks a girl's 15th birthday in many Latin American cultures?
- AFiesta de Cumpleaños
- BLas Posadas
- CDía de los Muertos
- DQuinceañera
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Quinceañera
The Quinceañera is a significant celebration in Latin American cultures for girls turning 15, marking their passage from girlhood to womanhood with both religious and social events.
Q 03Which Amish coming-of-age ritual lets youth explore the outside world before deciding on baptism?
- AConfirmation
- BCovenant Feast
- CPilgrimage
- DRumspringa
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Rumspringa
Rumspringa is a period, typically starting around age 16, where Amish youth are allowed to explore the outside world before making a conscious decision to be baptized into the Amish church or leave the community.
Q 04What is the ceremony held on Japan's Coming of Age Day for young people reaching adulthood called?
- ASeijin-shiki
- BObon
- CKodomo no Hi
- DHanami
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Seijin-shiki
Seijin-shiki ceremonies are held at city offices on the second Monday of January. Japan lowered its age of adulthood from 20 to 18 in 2022, but many municipalities still invite 20-year-olds to the ceremony.
Q 05In which region is the Maasai Eunoto ceremony, marking warriors becoming junior elders, practiced?
- AWest Africa
- BEast Africa
- CSouth America
- DSoutheast Asia
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East Africa
At Eunoto the Maasai of Kenya and northern Tanzania, in East Africa, shave off their long warrior hair as they graduate from warriors to elders.
Q 06In some Indigenous North American traditions, what spiritual journey do adolescents undertake to find purpose?
- APowwow
- BKiva Ceremony
- CVision Quest
- DSweat Lodge
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Vision Quest
In some traditions the quest involves a complete fast of four days and nights, alone at a sacred site, while the young person prays for a vision that will reveal their purpose in life.
Q 07Which four-night Navajo ceremony celebrates a girl's first menstruation?
- AKinaaldá
- BSun Dance
- CGhost Dance
- DPotlatch
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Kinaaldá
During Kinaaldá the girl enacts the part of Changing Woman, runs toward the dawn each morning, and helps bake a large corn cake in an earthen pit that represents fertility and life.
Q 08The Okuyi rite of passage is practised in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and which other Central African country?
- AEthiopia
- BGabon
- CZambia
- DNigeria
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Gabon
Gabon: Okuyi masks, whitened with kaolin, appear at funerals, weddings and rites such as a child reaching adolescence.
Q 09The 'Bullet Ant Initiation' with venomous-ant gloves is a coming-of-age rite for boys in which Amazonian tribe?
- AYanomami
- BGuarani
- CSateré-Mawé
- DKayapo
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Sateré-Mawé
Sateré-Mawé boys wear gloves woven with sedated bullet ants, stingers facing inward, for minutes at a time, and must repeat the ordeal 20 times over months or years.
Q 10What is the land-diving rite of Vanuatu's Pentecost Island, where men leap from towers with vines tied to their feet, called?
- AGol
- BSing-Sing
- CKastom
- DTamtam
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Gol
Gol divers jump from towers 20 to 30 metres high on vines an elder matches to each man's weight, and the rite is credited with inspiring bungee jumping.
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