Pretest 3

Question 1

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

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Heterogeneous groups

Question 2

Folk cultures are spread primarily by

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Relocation diffusion

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In recent decades, popular customs have most frequently originated in

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More developed countries

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Based on what you have read about globalization, you could surmise that the main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to

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Increase the similarity of social customs in different locations

Question 5

When we analyze the patterns of popular culture in our surroundings, we can surmise that

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Nodes of innovation are central to the process of hierarchical diffusion

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An example of a folk custom used to diffuse information about agriculture is

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Vietnamese songs

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The spatial distribution of soccer during the twentieth century is an example of

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Popular culture

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a

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Taboo

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The geographer Vidal de la Blache regarded food supply as

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Less subject modification than clothing and weapons

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The most important house style in the United States since the 1960’s is known as

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Neo-eclectic

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The trend of globalization has threatened

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Popular culture and folk culture relatively equally

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Marriage dowries in India reflect

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That some families value male children more

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People maintain their folk culture despite familiarity with popular culture primarily because of

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The high cost of popular customs

Question 14

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

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They correspond to the diffusion of free markets across much of the world

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A lingua Franca is

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A language understood by people who have different native languages

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The two largest language families in the world are

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Sino-Tibetan & Indo-European

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The first speakers of the language that exiled into English were tribes that lived in present day

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Denmark and Germany

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Which of the following is not a Romance language

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Bulgarian

Question 19

The two most important languages in South America are

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Portuguese and Spanish

Question 20

Colin renfrews research constitutes much of the _____ hypothesis

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sedentary farmer

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A literary tradition is

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The written form of a language

Question 22

An isogloss is

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A boundary between language regions

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Marija gimbutas has contributed to the ______ hypothesis

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Nomadic warrior

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A creolized language is

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A mix of indigenous and colonial languages

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A pidgin language

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Has no native speakers

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The language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world is

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Mandarin

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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 28

In the 1700’s, 1800’s and afterward, English diffusion has been strongly related to colonialism and imperialism in many parts of the world because

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Conquered people’s wishing to participate in the new government and the increasingly global economy felt pressured to learn English

Question 29

With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment,

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Religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment

Question 30

Religion is a good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity because

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Religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others

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The belief in the existence of only one God is

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Monotheism

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Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are

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Cosmogony

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The worlds largest ethnic religion is

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Hinduism

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Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America

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Having a Roman Catholic majority

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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a

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Sect

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Which is a branch of Christianity

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Eastern Orthodox

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The dominant branch of Islam is

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Sunni

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The dominant branch of Islam in Iran is

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Shiite

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Jerusalems geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve because

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Sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are literally built on top of one another

Question 40

The most populous ethnic group in the United States is

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Latinos/Hispanics

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The second most populous ethnic group in the United States is

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African Americans

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The largest Hispanic/Latino groups In the United States are from which two countries

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Puerto Rico and Mexico

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Los Angeles has what kind of ethnic distribution

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Clustered

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Which is the most dramatic change in the geographic distribution of African Americans in the United States

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Relocation to northern cities

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Which pair of concepts or entities from South Africa and the United States is the best match

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Apartheid-“Jim Crow” laws

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A nationality is

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A group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition

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

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From time to time at a given place