Culture Unit Test

Question 1

The body of customary beliefs, social forms and material traits that constitute a group’s distinct traditions would best describe a specific population’s

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culture

Question 2

The trend of globalization has threatened

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folk culture more than popular culture

Question 3

In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary

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from time to time at a given place

Question 4

Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by many different societies. They are also an example of

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popular culture.

Question 5

In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of large and

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heterogeneous groups

Question 6

Which of the following characteristics is more typical of popular culture than folk culture?

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It results in a more uniform cultural landscape

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Typically, popular culture

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experiences frequent changes through time and space

Question 8

Folk culture is spread primarily by

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relocation diffusion

Question 9

The diffusion of popular culture is linked to the diffusion of electronic media

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because it speeds the access times that allows people to share popular culture ideas

Question 10

A taboo against pork is a characteristic of

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Judaism and Islam

Question 11

China produces a relatively large amount of pork compared to the countries of Southwestern Asia primarily because

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Muslims have a taboo against pork consumption

Question 12

The global diffusion of popular culture may threaten folk culture by

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being less responsive to the diversity and health of local environments.

Question 13

Some features of U.S. popular culture such as gas stations, fast-food franchises, and motels

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promote a uniform landscape

Question 14

A good example of cultural homogenization would be

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the dominance on the landscape of fast-food restaurants and retail stores promoting consumerism.

Question 15

Diffusion of popular customs can adversely impact environmental quality in two ways by

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depletion of scarce resources and pollution

Question 16

The contemporary distribution of languages around the globe is largely a result of

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migration

Question 17

The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how

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recently in time the languages were once the same

Question 18

A collection of languages that share a common origin in the recent past but have since evolved into individual languages is a

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language group

Question 19

Which two language families together are spoken by over 66% of the world’s population?

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Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

Question 20

Which language is NOT a Romance language?

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Greek

Question 21

The Russian language is part of the

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Balto-Slavic branch

Question 22

The most-used language in the world today is

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Mandarin

Question 23

The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from

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thousands of years of isolation between cultural groups

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT TRUE regarding the Swahili language?

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like most African languages, it has no literary tradition

Question 25

English is part of which language branch?

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English is part of which language branch?

Question 26

English is part of which language family?

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Indo-European

Question 27

Romance branch languages have achieved worldwide importance because

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colonial and imperial activity distributed these languages to far reaching territories

Question 28

According to Colin Renfrew's research, Indo-European languages diffused across Europe

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with the diffusion of agriculture

Question 29

Colin Renfrew's research is most closely associated with the

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Sedentary Farmer Theory

Question 30

The Kurgans, identified as the first Proto-Indo-European speakers by archaeologist Marija Gimbutas

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were herders from the steppes of today's Russia and Kazakhstan

Question 31

The Nomadic Warrior Theory and the Sedentary Farmer Theory have been developed to explain the common ancestry of

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the non-Romance branches of Indo-European languages

Question 32

Both the Angles and the Normans contributed to the development of the English language, because they

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invaded England

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English is the most important language in North America primarily because of

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a legacy of colonization by the English

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A lingua franca is

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a language understood by people who have different native languages

Question 35

The dominance of English as an international language has facilitated

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diffusion of popular culture, science, and international trade

Question 36

Which statement is NOT TRUE when it comes to dominance of the English language on the Internet?

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The percentage of websites written in English continues to increase.

Question 37

Official languages of the United Nations include all but which of the following?

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Portuguese

Question 38

A pidgin language

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has no native speakers

Question 39

A regional variation of a language including a distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation of words is called a(n)

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dialect

Question 40

When people who speak a given language migrate to a different location and become isolated from other members of their group

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isolation usually results in the differentiation of one language into dialects, followed eventually by two distinct languages

Question 41

A creolized language is

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a mix of indigenous and colonial languages

Question 42

The Flemings and Walloons live in

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Belgium

Question 43

Bilingual signs in Brussels, Belgium contain which two languages?

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French and Flemish

Question 44

Which statement does NOT accurately describe multilingual places?

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Centrifugal forces that pull a society apart are a distinctive characteristic of all multilingual countries

Question 45

Basque is a good example of a

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vibrant and isolated language

Question 46

The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of

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Iceland's relative isolation from other places

Question 47

Which process is most likely to result in the extinction of a language?

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Only older people know it fluently, young people no longer learn it, and the last speaker dies of old age.

Question 48

A language that was nearly extinct in British-controlled areas but is now being revived is

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Celtic

Question 49

Hebrew is an example of

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a revived language

Question 50

The universalizing religion with the most adherents worldwide is

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Christianity

Question 51

Which of the following would NOT bet included among the world's four largest religions in terms of the number of adherents?

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Judaism

Question 52

Which of the following is an ethnic religion?

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Judaism

Question 53

Which of the following is considered a branch of Christianity?

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Eastern Orthodox

Question 54

Which term describes a religion that combines beliefs from several religious traditions?

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syncretic

Question 55

Founded in the nineteenth century, this universalizing religion advocates the abolition of racial, class, and religious prejudice.

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Baha'i

Question 56

Introduced first within Judaism, the belief in the existence of only one god is called

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monotheism

Question 57

The Protestant branch of Christianity is believed to have originated with

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the principles of Reformation and the theses of Martin Luther

Question 58

Although the Ganges is the most holy river for Hindus, the religion may have its roots in which river valley?

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Indus

Question 59

Christianity first diffused from its hearth in Judea through

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relocation diffusion

Question 60

Which religious affiliation has the highest percentage of international migrants?

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Jewish

Question 61

Roman Catholics are clustered in the U.S. southwest primarily because of migration of

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Roman Catholics from Mexico and Latin America.

Question 62

For most of the past 2,000 years, most Jews have been

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dispersed around the world

Question 63

Which of the following would NOT be associated with a Christian place of worship?

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the Golden Temple topped by a flag

Question 64

Able-bodied Muslims are expected to make the Hajj to Mecca where they can see

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where Muhammad was born and the al-Ka'ba

Question 65

Which is NOT a characteristic of a hierarchical religion?

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encouragement for each congregation to be self-sufficient