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Unit 3 Questions
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Which of the following is an example of material culture?
a. myths
d. pop music
b. traditional stories
e. all of the above
c. denim jeans
2. What are the three main universalizing religions?
a. Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism
d. Daoism, Roman Catholocism, Judaism
b. Christianity, Catholocism, Hinduism
e. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism
c. Roman Catholic, Protestant, Eastern
Orthodox.
3. The hearth and spiritual center of Islam is at
a. Cairo
d. Mecca
b. Jerusalem
e. Baghdad
c. Jakarta
4. A country in which a majority of the population is Shiite Muslims is
a. Indonesia
d. Iran
b. Saudi Arabia
e. Morocco
c. Egypt
5. When Muslims make he pilgramage to Mecca to observe the Kabah, which of the five pillars are they
practicing?
a. Salah
d. Shahadah
b. Zakat
e. Hajj
c. Sawm
6. Which of the following is an example of an ethnic religion?
a. Roman Catholocism
d. Judaism
b. Buddhism
e. Islam
c. Mormonism
7. Which of the following does NOT correctly associate a province of Canada with a large immigrant population
concentration?
a. Nova Scotia - Italian
d. Quebec - French
b. British Columbia - Chinese
e. Saskatchewan - Ukraine
c. Ontario - British
8. Linguistic geographers use isoglosses to mark:
a. the extent to which a lingua franca is used d. the limits for an area in which particular
in a particular area.
words are used.
b. the creation of pidgins.
e. the area in which an official language is
used.
c. the area in which an extinct language is
used.
9. Which of the following best describes the term “Global Village?”
a. The local diversity of cities increases with d. More and more people move from LDCs
more and more migration.
to MDCs.
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b. The increasing familiarity of other
e. The spread of a folk song from North
cultures due to globalization of popular
America to Europe.
culture.
c. More and more people move to LDCs
from MDCs.
The process by which one generation passes culture to the next is called:
a. cultural relativism.
d. cultural transmission.
b. syncretism.
e. assimilation.
c. cultural diffusion.
In _______________ religions, community, common history, and social relations are inextricably intertwined
with spiritual beliefs.
a. universal
d. evangelical
b. local
e. monotheistic
c. ethnic
When European settlers established relations with Native Americans, a new language was created to ease
translation for both groups. What is that language called?
a. Creole language
d. Constitutional language
b. Trade language
e. Official language
c. Indigenous language
If two people speak dialects of the same language:
a. they will communicate but with
d. one the accent will differentiate the
misunderstanding and difficulty.
dialects.
b. they cannot communicate
e. none of the above.
c. they will communicate relatively easily.
Which of the following best describes a dialect?
a. a language spoken by less than 1 million d. a regional variation of a language
people.
b. a new language formed after one group of e. languages spoken by more than 1 million
speakers looses contact with another
people.
group of speakers.
c. languages that are from the same language
family
A good example of a monolingual country would be
a. Japan.
d. Switzerland.
b. South Africa.
e. Canada.
c. Turkey.
To which branch of the Indo-European language family does English belong?
a. Indo-Iranian
d. Romance
b. Germanic
e. Indic
c. Balto-Slavic
The Ganges river is sacred to believers in what religion?
a. Judaism
d. Hinduism
b. Buddhism
e. none of the above
c. Christianity
What monotheistic religion is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ of Nazareth?
a. Buddhism
d. Christianity
b. Islam
e. Hinduism
c. Judaism
Which of the following is true of folk culture?
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a. Folk culture is based on rapid
d. Folk culture and traditions often have
simultaneous global connections through
pinpointed dates of innovation and
communication systems, transportation
creation.
networks, and other modern technology.
b. Folk culture often comes from anonymous e. Folk culture often comes from MDCs and
sources, at unknown dates.
diffuses to LDCs through globalization.
c. Folk and popular culture often create
artifacts for the purpose of being sold to a
large number of people.
A pilgrim to Varanasi (Benares) in India is most likely to be a:
a. Christian
d. Buddhist
b. Hindu
e. Muslim
c. Jew
Which of the following is a cultural hearth for religion?
a. Jerusalem
d. Paris
b. Chicago
e. all of the above
c. Naples
Which of the following is not a Romance language?
a. Romanian
d. French
b. Italian
e. Spanish
c. Austrian
Sacred sites of what religion are found in Jerusalem?
a. Judaism
d. all of the above
b. Christianity
e. (a) and (c) only
c. Islam
A trade language is called a
a. lingua franca.
d. syncretic.
b. dialect.
e. pidgin.
c. Creole.
The world’s three major monotheistic religions originated in which of the following regions?
a. Southwest Asia
d. Sub-Saharan Africa
b. East Asia
e. Western Europe
c. Eastern Europe
As Islam spread to Sub-Saharan Africa, its first converts were the elites, but most ordinary people retained
their native religions. This phenomenon illustrates the process of:
a. stimulation diffusion
d. hierarchical diffusion
b. contagious diffusion
e. relocation diffusion
c. migrant diffusion
Which of the following is the best and most complete example of a cultural landscape of pop culture?
a. hotel and convention complex
d. bed-and-breakfast
b. central business district (CBD)
e. commercial strip
c. shopping mall
Which of the following items is an example of nonmaterial culture?
a. Dove Candy Bar
d. Dove Symbol
b. Dove Soap
e. a dove (bird)
c. Dove stew
Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce are examples of:
a. pidgin languages.
d. creole language.
b. standard leagues.
e. lingua franca.
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c. official language.
Most scientists agree that the Egyptian pyramids and the Mayan temple pyramids were most caused by the
process of:
a. independent invention.
d. contagious diffusion.
b. simulus diffusion.
e. hierarchical diffusion.
c. relocation diffusion.
Which of the following is the largest proselytizing religion?
a. Islam
d. Buddhism
b. Shintoism
e. Hinduism
c. Christianity
Which of the following areas has the greatest linguistic fragmentation?
a. Scandinavia
d. Caucasus
b. Argentina
e. Quebec
c. Korea
Acculturation is a process whereby:
a. the more dominant culture adopts most of d. the less dominant culture adopts some of
the traits of the less dominant culture.
the traits of the more influential one.
b. the dominant culture completely absorbs e. non-material and material culture spread
the less dominant one.
to areas around them.
c. cultural traits are equally exchanged
between two cultures.
Which of the following is the best example of folk food?
a. McDonald’s french fries in Germany
d. Blowfish in Japan
b. Hamburgers in the United States
e. KFC in China
c. Pizza in the United States
People in London, Melbourne, Vancouver and Mumbai all speak
a. a pidgin language
d. lingua francas
b. different creoles
e. official languages
c. different dialects
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The saltbox-type house pictured above originated in which of the following cultural areas?
a. The United States’ Southwest
d. The Great Lakes region
b. The Canadian Prarie
e. The United States’ Southeast
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c. New England and the Canadian Maritimes
In what country are the most Basque speakers found?
a. Spain
d. Germany
b. Denmark
e. Luxembourg
c. Finland
The standardization of location that erases cultural variety can result in:
a. place image.
d. a sense of place.
b. popular culture.
e. folk culture.
c. placelessness.
The Hajj is:
a. donation to charity.
d. a religious pilgrimage in Islam.
b. prayer requirements in Islam.
e. none of the above
c. fasting for Ramadan.
Which of the following is true in terms of the culture of most sports?
a. Sports tend to spread around the world
d. Sports start out as popular culture before
more slowly than other forms of popular
being adapted by people in different
culture.
regions to folk culture.
b. Sports rarely diffuse outside of their
e. The most popular sports in the world
cultural hearth.
began simultaneously in many different
cultural hearths.
c. Most popular sports start out as folk
culture before diffusing around the world
to the point at which people are willing to
pay professional athletes.
Which of the following best exemplifies folk culture?
a. Cajun music
d. The purchasing of rap music by white
suburban youth
b. Eating Chinese food in New York City
e. A dialect that is similar in two different
regions of the country
c. The burial of the dead
Which is the best definition of proselytization?
a. the belief that a personally held religion is d. a desire to share beliefs and convert nonthe correct one
believers
b. a set of strongly held religious beliefs
e. all of the above
c. intolerance of other religious beliefs
In the United States, the largest concentrations of Amish are found in
a. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
d. Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois
b. Tennessee, Arkansas, and Kentucky
e. Rhode Island, New York, and West
Virginia
c. Utah, Arizona, and Nevada
Which of the following is true of popular culture?
a. It is practiced among a homogeneous
d. It spreads primarily by relocation
group of people in the world.
diffusion.
b. It incorporates traits that diffuse quickly to e. It is more static than folk culture.
a wide variety of places.
c. It promotes regional diversity.
The Indo-European language family has its distant origins in the area around the:
a. Baltic Sea
d. Black Sea
b. Arabian Penisula
e. Italian Peninsula
c. Iberian Peninsula
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The above structure would most likely be found in which country?
a. Thailand
d. India
b. Ecuador
e. Israel
c. Germany
The Kurgan hearth theory explains:
a. a hierarchical diffusion of popular culture d. the development of regional dialects.
words such as “computer.”
b. the diffusion of Indo-European language. e. the creolization of Enlgish.
c. the differences between English in the
United States and England.
Which distinctive cultural region in the United States has its own food, music, and language along the border
with Mexico?
a. Swedish-American
d. Creole
b. Italian-American
e. Cajun
c. Tex-Mex
A person who practices the Hindu religion would be most likely to:
a. make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
d. make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
b. bathe in the Ganges River.
e. pray five times a day.
c. visit a shrine built on the shores of a lake.
The field that studies the relationship between the natrual environment and culture is called:
a. linguistic geography
d. syncretism
b. cultural geography
e. environmental determinism
c. cultural diffusion
____ 51. The sacred book(s) of the Hindu is/are called the:
a. Talmuds.
d. Vedas.
b. Koran.
e. Torah.
c. Bible.
____ 52. The term “Cultural Diffusion” refers to the:
a. assimilation of a minority culture into the d. modifications of earth’s surface by human
host society.
actions.
b. spread of an idea or innovation from its
e. integration of behavioral traits within a
source.
group.
c. relationship between human cultures and
their physical environment.
____ 53. Variations in vocabulary, pronunciation and rhythm in a spoken language are called:
a. syntax.
d. isoglosses.
b. creoles
e. lingua francas.
c. dialects.
____ 54. What language is known as the lingua franca of Eastern Africa?
a. French
d. Zulu
b. Swahili
e. English
c. Hindi
____ 55. The process by which the English language diffused throughout India under British colonial rule was:
a. hierarchical diffusion
d. contagious diffusion
b. stimulus diffusion
e. expansion diffusion
c. assimilation
____ 56. Which religions have a conflict over the land of Palestine and the city of Jeruselem?
a. Christianity and Judaism
d. Islam and Judaism
b. Judaism and Hinduism
e. Islam and Buddhism
c. Christianity and Buddhism
____ 57. The most widespread language family on earth is the
a. Indo-European
d. Romance
b. Sino-Tibetan
e. Germanic
c. Mandarin Chinese
____ 58. In the 1600s, Peter the Great returned to Russia from his travels in Europe and taught his people WesternEuropean style dance. This diffusion of Western style dance is most closely an example of:
a. Cultural Isolation
d. Contagious Diffusion
b. Theocracy
e. Hierarchical Diffusion
c. Sequent Occupance
____ 59. A fundamental difference between folk culture and popular culture is that folk culture:
a. is adaptive to change over time.
d. represents universal values.
b. often sets a minority group apart from a
e. tends to diffuse rapidly across space
regions general population.
c. loses some of its distinctive characteristics
as it crosses national boundaries.
____ 60. The cultural hearth of Christianity is in
a. Turkey
d. South Carolina
b. Israel
e. Rome
c. New York
____ 61. Which of the following was the most pronounced affect of the Norman invasion of England on the English
Language?
a. The Normans brought Scandanavian
words which still remain in place names.
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d. The Normans spoke French which
combined with the more Germanic
English of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
to form a new language.
e. The Normans brought the Celtic language
to England.
b. The language of the upper class became
German.
c. The Normans spoke French which became
the language of the lower class.
With which of the following religions is architechture involving minarets and onion-shaped domes most
closely associated?
a. Islam
d. Judaism
b. Buddhism
e. Western Christianity
c. Hinduism
Which of the following was not one of the earliest ancient cultural hearths?
a. Mississippi Valley
d. East Asia
b. Indus Valley
e. Nile Valley
c. Mesopotamia
English is an example of:
a. a Romance language.
d. a creole.
b. a Germanic language.
e. none of the above
c. an isolated language.
The Indus Valley, Egypt, West Africa, and Mesopotamia are a few examples of:
a. culture basins.
d. cultual convergences.
b. cultural hearths.
e. cultural divergence.
c. culture complexes.
All evangelical religions are also
a. polytheistic religions
d. local religions
b. ethnic religions
e. universal religions
c. animist religions
If four languages have similar words for numbers and names of fish, but different names for a certain disease,
what might be concluded about the time at which the disease first diffused?
a. There can be no conclusions drawn about d. The disease and language spread to four
the initial diffusion of the disease based on
different regions at the same time at the
language.
same rate.
b. The disease spread among a population
e. The disease spread to two different
that later divided and evolved into four
populations that later divided into two
different languages.
different languages
c. The population divided and evolved into
four different languages and then the
disease spread.
The literal interpretation of and strict adherance to principals of a religion is known as:
a. religious values.
d. religious fundamentalism.
b. an autonomous religion.
e. a denomination.
c. a crusade.
A world map of hog production per capita would reveal the lowest values in which of the following regions?
a. The United States Midwest
d. Western Europe
b. China
e. The Middle East
c. Southeast Asia
Haitian is an example of a(n):
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a. taboo.
d. creole.
b. dialect.
e. language branch.
c. language family.
Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the most important holiday in which religion?
a. Islam
d. Christianity
b. Hinduism
e. Judaism
c. Buddhism
What type of calandar to North Americans use?
a. Solstice
d. Drought
b. Solar
e. Lunar
c. Agricultural
Which of the following originated in South Asia and subsequently spread throughout much of Southeast and
East Asia?
a. Confucianism
d. Buddhism
b. Sikhism
e. Christianity
c. Hinduism
The attachements people have to specific locations and their characteristics is called:
a. placelessness.
d. sense of place.
b. location.
e. connectivity.
c. cultural landscape.
Which of the following counries has the largest percentage of Roman Catholics?
a. Greece
d. Germany
b. Italy
e. Great Britain
c. the United States
Romance languages are all derived from:
a. Iranian
d. Latin
b. Norman
e. Scandanavian
c. German
Mahayana, Therevada, and Tantrayana are three branches of:
a. Buddhism
d. Sikhism
b. Hinduism
e. Islam
c. Daoism
In Minnesota, Sven orders a soda pop. In Illinois, Valeria orders a pop. In Texas, Mike orders a coke. These
word use boundaries are known as:
a. pidgin dialect
d. Isolated Languages
b. Lingua Franca
e. language family
c. Isoglosses
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The statue above is an important symbol for adherents of:
a. Confucianism
d. Islam
b. Hinduism
e. Buddhism
c. Easter Orthodoxy
____ 80. Which pair of religions are both universalizing religions?
a. Christianity and Buddhism
d. Judaism and Buddhism
b. Islam and Judaism
e. Hinduism and Buddhism
c. Islam and Hinduism
____ 81. Toponymy is the study of:
a. extinct languages
d. dialects
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b. religious groups
e. place names
c. linguistic fragmentation
When an ethnic group completely blends with the larger society, it is called:
a. expansion diffusion.
d. assimilation.
b. contagious diffusion.
e. hierarchical diffusion.
c. acculturation.
What is the most rapidly growing religion in the United States today?
a. Islam
d. Christianity
b. Judaism
e. Hinduism
c. Buddhism
The modern game of soccer (football) spread to many parts of the world because of British colonization. This
is an example of what type of diffusion?
a. Contagious
d. Stimulus
b. Expansion
e. Relocation
c. Hierarchical
American English differs from English in England because:
a. English in the United States has changed d. The United States passed a law in 1820
more than English in England
making English its official language.
b. Americans consciously changed the
e. The language has grown apart because the
language to distinguish themselves from
two countries were isolated from each
Great Britain after the American
other.
Revolution.
c. Most immigrants to the United States were
from the upper class of England.
What is a denomination?
a. a small seed covering
d. A division or branch that unites a number
of local congregations into a single
administrative body.
b. an individual who founds a religion and
e. a small group that has broken away from
helps to diffuse it across the globe.
an established religion
c. A large and fundamental difference
between religions.
The branch of Christianity that has the largest number of adherents is:
a. Eastern Orthodoxy
d. Roman Catholocism
b. Protestantism
e. Lutheranism
c. the Baptist Church
What are the two major branches of Islam?
a. Shamanism and Sunni
d. Sunni and Shinto
b. Shamanism and Shiite
e. Shinto and Shiite
c. Sunni and Shiite
An European who refers to China as the “Far East” is reflecting a form of:
a. ethnocentrism
d. humanism
b. animism
e. cultural relativism
c. assimilation
In the Canadian prairies, barns were first built with:
a. plywood
d. fossilized shellfish cement
b. sod and thatch
e. logs
c. stones
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a. Germans.
d. French.
b. British.
e. Spanish.
c. Irish.
____ 92. Languages became more standardized following:
a. the industrial revolution.
d. the discovery of the Americas.
b. World War I.
e. none of the above
c. the invention of the printing press.
____ 93. Which language has become the world’s primary lingua franca?
a. English
d. German
b. Hindi
e. Spanish
c. Mandarin Chinese
____ 94. Acculturation is a common cause of
a. assimilation
d. language extinction
b. illiteracy
e. cultural diffusion
c. creolization
____ 95. Which of the following is a particular form of relocation diffusion in which the spread of culture traits is slow
enough that they weaken in the area of origin by the time they reach other areas?
a. hierarchical diffusion
d. stimulus diffusion
b. expansion diffusion
e. migrant diffusion
c. contagious diffusion
____ 96. Many Islamic states in the Middle East region combine religion and state and don’t separate them. This is an
example of what?
a. Plural society
d. Multilingual society
b. Theocracy
e. Democracy
c. Monotheism
____ 97. The type of culture that includes a wide range of artifacts is called:
a. non-material culture
d. folk culture
b. material culture
e. a culture region
c. popular culture
____ 98. Graveyards and cemetaries are NOT used by:
a. Muslims.
d. Hindus.
b. Christians.
e. Animists.
c. Jews.
____ 99. What family do most European languages belong to?
a. Indo-European
d. Sino-Tibetan
b. Ural-Altaic
e. Basque
c. Phoenician
____ 100. The French language, how to weave a basket, and the belief in ancestral spirits are all examples of:
a. culture traits.
d. popular culture.
b. dialects.
e. cultural hearths.
c. artifacts.
____ 101. Dishes, axes, knives, and toys are examples of:
a. the built environment.
d. sociofacts.
b. artifacts.
e. mentifacts.
c. tools.
____ 102. Cultural geography is the study of
a. global customs and artifacts.
d. how cultures change through time.
b. human-environment relationships.
e. the spatial distribution of cultural traits.
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c. cultural complexes.
Which of the following is the most widely spoken, first language, language family?
a. Creole
d. Indo-Asia
b. Romance
e. Eastern Slavic
c. Indo-European
A rejection of or indifference to religion in a country is called:
a. animism.
d. monotheism.
b. polytheism.
e. heathenism.
c. secularism.
Which of the following schools of thought puts most emphasis on the importance of the physical environment
in shaping culture?
a. cultural ecology
d. possibilism
b. cultural determinism
e. environmental determinism
c. environmental perception
Which ethnic religion is distributed across the United States, Israel, Europe, Asia and Africa?
a. Christianity
d. Daoism
b. Judaism
e. Islam
c. Hinduism
The two primary Eastern religions of Hinduism and Buddhism each have there hearths located where?
a. Southeast Asia
d. Western Saudi Arabia
b. Northern India
e. Eastern China
c. Jerusalem
Which of the following is not an ethnic religion?
a. Shintoism
d. Hinduism
b. Sikhism
e. Judaism
c. Shamanism
The process whereby an immigrant learns the values, language and customs of their new country is called:
a. acculturation.
d. adaptation.
b. dispersion
e. diffusion.
c. amalgamation
Which country below has the highest concentration of Buddhists?
a. Brazil
d. Iran
b. France
e. Vietnam
c. Russia
Which of the following is a dialect?
a. Latin
d. Romance
b. Dravidian
e. southern United States
c. Indo-European
Historically, the world’s major languages have spread by all of the following methods EXCEPT:
a. Sanskrit records.
d. conquest.
b. migration.
e. trade.
c. expanding populations.
Belief in Shiva is part of:
a. Buddhism
d. Confucianism
b. Animism
e. none of the above
c. Judaism
Which of the following world religions is one that proselytizes, or actively seeks converts?
a. Animism
d. Shamanism
b. Buddhism
e. Judaism
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c. Hinduism
Which of the following religions is the best example of a polytheistic religion?
a. Christianity
d. Shintoism
b. Islam
e. Atheism
c. Judaism
Wooden shoes characteristic of the Dutch culture are an example of a(n)
a. artifact.
d. syncretism.
b. complex.
e. mentifact.
c. custom.
Which of the following is not a place name in the United States that reflects geographical origins?
a. New York
d. Pottstown
b. New Jersey
e. Germantown, PA
c. New Hampshire
Cultural traditions, such as Christmas, are ____________ since they borrow from the past and are continually
reinvented in the present.
a. inauthentic
d. erratic
b. complex
e. ecumenical
c. sycretic
Which one of the following groups is excluded from the casted system of Hinduism?
a. servants
d. businessmen and farmers
b. untouchables
e. scholar-priests
c. warrior-landowners
The practice of judging other cultures against the standards of one’s own culture is called:
a. acculturation.
d. ethnicity.
b. ethnocentrism.
e. egocentrism.
c. assimilation.
______________ is an excellent example of a nonevangelical univeralizing religion.
a. Christianity
d. Hinduism
b. Polytheism
e. Protestantism
c. Buddhism
Which of the following religions is an universalizing religion?
a. Confucianism
d. Judaism
b. Shintoism
e. Taoism
c. Islam
Which of the following correctly sequences the continuum from language family to dialect?
a. Indo-European, Baltic-Slavic, Russian,
d. Indo-European, Germanic, English,
Ukranian
Midland-Northern
b. Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Hindi,
e. Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Arabic, Berber
Bengali
c. Sino-Tibetan, Sinitic, Madarin, Chineses
What is the largest ethnic religion?
a. Judaism
d. Hinduism
b. Shitoism
e. Confucianism
c. Daoism
Which of the following is not an explanation of the widespread use of English?
a. English control over south Asia and Africa d. Colonization of and immigration to the
during the 18th and 19th centuries
United States during the 17th century
b. 50 countries have English as an official
e. Its ease of learning.
language.
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c. U.S. imperialism after the Spanish
American war.
Which two universalizing religions have their root in Judaism?
a. Daoism and Christianity
d. Christianity and Buddhism
b. Daoism and Islam
e. Christianity and Islam
c. Hinduism and Islam
The Earth’s surface as modified by humans is called:
a. the cultural landscape.
d. environmental determinism.
b. the physical environment.
e. folk culture.
c. carrying capacity.
Local Native American and African religions that teach a belief in a natural world full of spiritual beings and
supernatural powers are often referred to as
a. missionary.
d. animist.
b. shamanistic.
e. denominational.
c. local religions.
Globalization has encouraged the diffusion of:
a. popular culture
d. ethnic regions
b. linguistic fragmentation
e. ethnocentrism
c. folk culture
Which pair of religions share a long-held tradition of cremating their dead?
a. Christian and Buddhist
d. Hindu and Muslim
b. Muslim and Jewish
e. Hindu and Buddhist
c. Christian and Jewish
A group of people with a common culture and history who occupy an area are called:
a. a political state.
d. a state.
b. a country.
e. a nation.
c. a nation-state.
The earth’s heterogeneous collection of languages is an example of:
a. ethnic conflict
d. demographic transition
b. hierarchical diffusion
e. cultural diversity
c. globalization
The outer boundary of a linguistic feature on a map is called:
a. a toponym.
d. a vernacular.
b. a creole.
e. an isogloss.
c. a dialect.
Cultural ecology studies the
a. relationship between media and diffusion d. relationship between politics and policy
b. interactions between human societies and e. relationship between language and land
the physical environment
use
c. interactions between places over time
Which of the following groups of languages are most closely related?
a. Rmanian, German and Ukrainian
d. French, German and Dutch
b. French, Spanish and Italian
e. Russian, Ukrainian and Hindi
c. Hindi, Dravidian and Tibetan
Culture complexes are made up of many culture:
a. regions
d. traits
b. hearths
e. systems
c. dialects
Which one of the following does NOT correctly associate a religion with its place of worship?
a. Buddhism-pyramids
b. Shinto-shrines
c. Islam-mosques
____ 138. What is a lingua franca?
a. none of the above
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d. Christians-churches
e. Judaism-synagogues
d. a language commonly taught and
understood
e. a language related to French
b. a language used in a colonial region
c. a language that is particularly hard to
understand
Which term below best describes a religion that uses missionaries to spread its faith?
a. monotheistic
d. animistic
b. ethnic
e. universalizing
c. polytheistic
Literacy rates vary by
a. economic development.
d. all of the above.
b. location.
e. sex.
c. education.
Where in the United States does Roman Catholocism dominate?
a. southern New England
d. Southeast
b. Southwest
e. A and B only
c. Pacific Northwest
A condition in which many languages in a region are spoken, each by a relatively small number of people is
called:
a. bilingualism.
d. linguistic relativism.
b. sycretism.
e. linguistic fragmentation.
c. diaspora.
The most rapidly growing minority group in the United States is:
a. Hispanic.
d. Native American.
b. Black or African American.
e. European.
c. Asian.
Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?
a. terraced fields of crops up a mountainside d. a coral reef
b. a glacier
e. tropical jungle
c. a stand of pine trees
What is the chief religion practiced in Europe?
a. Islam
d. Buddhism
b. Hinduism
e. Animism
c. Christianity
Throughout history, numerous colonial powers have argued that certain types of people, living in certain areas
of the world, are less able to govern themselves because of the qualities they have developed due to their
interactions with natural factors, such as climate. This belief is an example of:
a. ecumenism
d. environmental determinism
b. possibilism
e. cultural ecology
c. positivism
In contrast to societies that are strongly influenced by popular, folk societies are:
a. less likely to promote religious values
d. more inclined to tolerate a variety of
social customs and behaviors
b. less resistant to cultural change
e. more limited in their building materials
c. more likely to place a strain on natural
resources
____ 148. Which language family includes Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian?
a. Slavic
d. Celtic
b. European
e. Romance
c. Germanic
____ 149. The world’s most widespread religion is
a. Hinduism
d. Animism
b. Christianity
e. Buddhism
c. Islam
____ 150. Regionalization would best explain the characteristics of the study of
a. popular culture
d. folk culture
b. material culture
e. built environment
c. adaptive strategies