Place or Space

Question 1

Place or location can influence one’s behavior and how one becomes socialized. T/F

Answer 1

True

Question 2

If you find yourself feeling a sense of alienation, isolation, or loneliness, one of the ways out of these feelings would be to seek out a connection to the place around you. T/F

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Our knowledge of the world is based on our embeddedness in space. T/F

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The pattern township and range established on the rural landscape was similar in some ways to the pattern the suburbs established on the urban landscape. T/F

Answer 4

True

Question 5

The Spatial Studies Tradition looks for regularities and patterns over space, developing spatial laws and models. T/F

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Suburbanized places are linked to rationalized spaces. T/F

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Many students arriving at UNL for the first time often experience an overwhelming sense of place. T/F

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Quantitative studies, looking for regularities and patterns, are most associated with the Area Studies Tradition. T/F

Answer 8

False

Question 9

It is likely that people who come to Lincoln only to attend a Husker football game experience a different town than someone who goes to school in Lincoln or lives and works here. T/F

Answer 9

True

Question 10

According to your author, contemporary western culture can be expressed on the landscape as commodities. T/F

Answer 10

True

Question 11

A map grid symbolizes the Area Studies Tradition. T/F

Answer 11

False

Question 12

Places are not just sets of accumulated data, but they involve human intentions for these places as well. T/F

Answer 12

True

Question 13

We can’t think of humans without thinking of them as embedded in the world. T/F

Answer 13

True

Question 14

One of the ways people define themselves is through a sense of place. T/F

Answer 14

True

Question 15

The Age of Enlightenment gave rise to rationalized spaces. T/F

Answer 15

True

Question 16

The Romantics looked for order and geometric patterning on the land. T/F

Answer 16

False

Question 17

The development of the national parks system can be seen as an emphasis of place over space. T/F

Answer 17

True

Question 18

More mobilized societies produce more distanciated relationships. T/F

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Places that have a past and a future that binds people together around them are said to be:

a. commodified
b. time-thickened
c. embedded
d. homogenized

Answer 19

Time-thickened

Question 20

The significance of the township and range “checkerboard” landscape pattern is its attempt to:

a. represent the authority of human reason over nature
b. impose spatial ordering
c. separate the observer from the landscape
d. All of the above

Answer 20

All of the Above

Question 21

What forever changed our sense of space at the end of the 19th century?

a. The opening of the Western US
b. Taylorism
c. The railroad
d. Fordism

Answer 21

The Railroad

Question 22

What happens when the process of creating bounded space (or territory) breaks down?

a. People from around the world can be found forming groups that both control, define, and are defined by territory.
b. Places become unique.
c. Places become ‘time-thickened.”
d. People’s identities may become less stable and it would increase the feeling of loneliness.

Answer 22

People’s identities may become less stable and it would increase the feeling of loneliness.

Question 23

One of the mistakes of early public housing facilities was that:

a. housing units were too small
b. housing units were built without adequate attention to building community
c. housing units were built without adequate attention to space
d. housing units were too large

Answer 23

Housing units were built without adequate attention to building community

Question 24

“Place” is based on which of the four traditions of Geography?

a. The Spatial Tradition
b. The Man-land Tradition
c. The Area Studies Tradition
d. The Earth-science Tradition

Answer 24

Area Studies

Question 25

An example of the commodification of culture would be:

a. Williamsburg Village, Virginia
b. Euro-Disney
c. Graceland
d. All of the above.

Answer 25

All of the Above

Question 26

How do we characterize the spread of markets bringing distant produce, and the increase of highways and mass transport, that have undermined the idea of locality?

a. As a homogenization of place
b. As existentialism
c. As phenomenology
d. As embedded knowledge

Answer 26

As a homogenization of place

Question 27

The geographies of culture refer to the fact that:

a. people can experience the same places differently
b. we have relatively stable centers of care about the world
c. many different people can live in the same place
d. cultures can overlap

Answer 27

People can experience the same places differently

Question 28

The American President credited with establishing the township and range “checkerboard” landscape pattern we see throughout much of the central part of the United States was:

a. Thomas Jefferson
b. George Washington
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 28

Thomas Jefferson

Question 29

Intentionality refers to:

a. the authenticity of place
b. the fact that there is only one true authentic meaning
c. the characteristic that defines an object
d. the way things exist at different levels of meaning

Answer 29

The way things exist at different levels of meaning

Question 30

Human beings only become able to think and act through being-in-the-world. This describes:

a. Embedded knowledge
b. Authenticity
c. Intention
d. Homogenization of place

Answer 30

Embedded knowledge