Culture Unit Test

Unit III Possible Test Questions

1) The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people is a

A) custom. B) popular culture. C) habit. D) taboo. E) religion

2) A fundamental difference between folk culture and popular culture is that folk culture

A) often sets a minority group apart from a region’s general population

B) is adaptive to change over time

C) tends to diffuse rapidly across geographic space

D) loses some of its distinctive characteristics as it crosses national boundaries

E) represents universal values

3) In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of

A) homogeneous groups.

B) sense of family and community

C) groups living in isolated rural areas.

D) groups that have little interaction with other groups.

E) groups living in large cities

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

A) It has an anonymous origin.

B) It diffuses slowly from its point of origin.

C) It results in a more uniform landscape.

D) It is likely to be derived from physical conditions.

E) It results in a more heterogeneous landscape

5) Folk cultures are spread primarily by

A) contagious diffusion.

B) hierarchical diffusion.

C) relocation diffusion.

D) stimulus diffusion.

E) none of the above

6) folk customs are more likely than popular customs to

A) evolve from the isolation of different groups.

B) diffuse through modern communication systems.

C) be a part of universalizing religions and not ethnic religions

D) have an known source of origin.

E) evolve from expansion diffusion

7) In contrast to popular culture, folk cultures are more likely to vary

A) from place to place at a given time.

B) from time to time at a given place.

C) both from place to place and from time to time.

D) neither from place to place nor from time to time.

E) both A and B

8) popular customs usually originate from all of the following except

A) the availability of more leisure time.

B) the application of industrial technology.

C) familiar events in daily life.

D) high income levels

E) all of the above

9) Folk customs most frequently originate in

A) more developed countries.

B) less developed countries.

C) former communist countries.

D) equally likely in all of the above

E) equally likely in none of the above

10) A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a

A) folk culture. B) habit. C) popular culture. D) taboo. E) custom

11) A taboo against beef is a characteristic of

A) Judaism and Islam.

B) Judaism and Buddhism.

C) Buddhism.

D) Christianity

E) Hinduism

12) American chains such as Home Depot, McDonald's and Wal Mart

A) promote a uniform landscape.

B) reflect the preservation of folk culture.

C) provide diversity on the U.S. landscape.

D) promote diffusion of folk culture.

E) demonstrate isolation of folk culture

13) A form of a language spoken in a local area is a

A) dialect. B) language branch. C) language family. D) language group. E) lingua franca

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

A) their language usually shows very little change even over a long period of time.

B) they immediately develop a literary tradition.

C) isolation usually results in the differentiation of one language into two.

D) they lose their linguistic abilities.

E) both A and D

15) Hebrew is an example of

A) an isolated language. B) an extinct language. C) a revived language. D) a language family. E) dialect

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

A) thousands of years of isolation between tribal groups.

B) repeated invasions by outsiders.

C) introduction of many different languages by the colonial powers.

D) frequent migration by the different tribal groups.

E) contagious diffusion

17) Franglais is

A) an English words entering the French language.

B) a language that is mutually understood by people who have different native languages.

C) an extinct language that has been revived.

D) an official language in a region of the world different from where the language originated.

E) a dialect

18) An isogloss is

A) a form of a language spoken in a local area.

B) a collection of unique words.

C) a boundary between language regions.

D) all of the above

E) none of the above

19) English is part of which language group?

A) Germanic B) North Germanic C) West Germanic D) Indo-European E) Sino-Tibetan

20) English is part of which language branch?

A) Germanic B) North Germanic C) West Germanic D) Indo-European E) Sino-Tibetan

21) English is part of which language family?

A) Germanic B) North Germanic C) West Germanic D) Indo-European E) Sino-Tibetan

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

A) ethnic religions more often derive meaningful events from the physical environment.

B) religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment.

C) Proselytizing religions are less likely to have many symbols linked to the landscape.

D) All of the above are true.

E) None of the above are true

23) A global religion

A) is based on the physical characteristics of a particular location on Earth.

B) rarely appeals to people living in LDCs.

C) is rarely transmitted through missionaries.

D) is intentionally developed to be a world religion.

E) is not regionally isolated

24) The world's largest universalizing religion is

A) Buddhism. B) Christianity. C) Hinduism . D) Islam. E) Daoism

25) The world's largest ethnic religion is

A) Confucianism. B) Daoism. C) Hinduism. D) Shintoism. E) Buddhism

26) Christianity first diffused from its hearth through

A) contagious diffusion.

B) hierarchical diffusion.

C) relocation diffusion.

D) all of the above were equally important.

E) none of the above are true

27) The dominant branch of Islam is

A) Druze. B) Eastern Orthodoxy. C) Shiite. D) Sunni. E) Persian

28) Which of the following is currently the most important religion in the homeland of the man who founded it?

A) Buddhism B) Christianity C) Hinduism D) Islam E) Judaism

29) Unlike other universalizing religions, Buddhism

A) remained concentrated in one region of the world.

B) was not begun by an individual founder.

C) was founded in China.

D) worships more than one god.

E) diffused widely

30) Animists believe that

A) people should complete God's creation of the Earth.

B) inanimate objects and natural events have spirits.

C) people should make complete use of the Earth's resources.

D) natural disasters are preventable.

E) there is one supreme god

31) The agricultural calendar is relatively unimportant to which type of religions?

A) animist B) ethnic C) pagan D) universalizing E) none of the above

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

A) highly clustered in present-day Israel.

B) dispersed around the world.

C) concentrated in the United States.

D) forced to live in ghettos.

E) highly clustered in North Africa

33) Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than a universalizing religion, primarily because

A) its main holidays relate to events in the life of its founder, Abraham.

B) it uses a lunar calendar.

C) its rituals derive from the agricultural cycle in Israel.

D) it commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.

E) it has widely diffused

34) Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are

A) animism. B) cosmogony. C) monotheism. D) solstice. E) evolution

35) From the Russian Revolution to the fall of the communist government, what was the policy of the government towards religion?

A) All churches were closed.

B) The old church was replaced by Eastern Orthodoxy.

C) Churches remained open but played a limited role.

D) Youth were encouraged to attend so that they could be indoctrinated into communism.

E) None of the above

36) A pilgrim to Varanasi (Benares) in India is most likely to be a

A) Christian B) Jew C) Hindu D) Buddhist E) Muslim

37) Which of the following is not an element of cultural diversity?

A) language B) religion C) ethnicity D) race E) apartheid

38) Which best describes the distribution of ethnicities in the United States?

A) regional concentrations

B) concentrations within cities

C) concentrations within neighborhoods

D) all of the above

E) none of the above

39) Race is

A) characterized by Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic/Latino.

B) self-identification with a group sharing a biological ancestor.

C) determinable from physical characteristics.

D) evenly distributed around the world.

E) all of the above

40) Which of the following does the United States Census Bureau not consider a race?

A) Asian B) Black C) Hispanic/Latino D) White E) all of the above are races

41) White flight is

A) movement of Whites from northern cities.

B) emigration of Whites from an area Blacks where anticipated to move to.

C) establishment of suburbs.

D) decrease in percent Whites because of Black migration from the Southeast.

E) an expansion of the ghetto

42) Conflict in Africa is widespread because of

A) colonial boundaries.

B) numerous ethnic groups.

C) language differences.

D) all of the above

E) none of the above

43) The Lebanese civil war resulted when the country broke down because of

A) ethnic groups.

B) religious groups.

C) changes in the majority between religious groups.

D) independent armies.

E) interference from Syria

44) The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called

A) war.

B) migrational push factors.

C) racism.

D) ethnic cleansing.

E) migration pull factors

45) Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which of the following?

A) Cultural ecology

B) Nonmaterial culture

C) Environmental determinism

D) Physical environment

E) Built environment

46) The world's fastest growing universalizing religion is

A) Buddhism. B) Christianity. C) Hinduism . D) Islam. E) Daoism

47) Folk culture is linked to the demographic transition chart in that

A) Latin American countries are in stage 2, African countries are in stage 3 and both are more likely to have folk customs that countries in stage 4

B) Folk cultures usually go along with societies that have larger, unified families under patriarchs

C) Folk cultures usually have lots of leisure time to develop and maintain traditions

D) Women are usually highly valued for their fertility and gain equal rights and respect through this

E) All of the above

48) Popular culture is linked to the demographic transition chart in that it

A) tends to occur in MDC's

B) has family values that have changed to the point where alternate lifestyles and divorce are allowed

C) has values that shift over time

D) can be expected in countries like the U.S. where women are going to college in larger numbers than men

E) All of the above

49) The dominant branch of Islam is

A) Sunni

B) Shiite

C) trick questions- Muslims are both Sunni and Shiite at the same time

D) has taken over the Iraqi government

E) none of the above

50) Mr. Lewis

A) Gives his cats airplane rides

B) Will be rolling around in your scan-trons after the test to try and feel the answers

C) Once killed a man for snoring too loud

D) Got into fights with Mr. Parson's in elementary school

E) All of the Above