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U3 Culture Test Quiz!
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When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the trunk of the tree represents
creolized languages
dialects
language groups
language families
2
When two people or more who speak different languages use English to conduct business, we can consider English a(n)
Lingua Franca
Creole
Pidgin
Assimilated language
3
Cultural traits spread continuously outward from their hearth through contact among people
Relocation diffusion
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
expansion diffusion
4
Why is English the most widely spoken language in North America?
Viking Explorations of the New World
British Colonialism
The Norman Conquest
The Internet
5
What branch of the Indo-European language family does English belong to?
Indo-Iranian
Romance
Slavic
Germanic
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When popular culture steals and/or misrepresents an aspect of folk culture for profit, it is known as
Cultural imperialism
Cultural assimilation
Cultural appropriation
Cultural syncretism
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Folk culture is mostly diffused by
Relocation Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Hierarchical Diffusion
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Which of the following factors are most influential in shaping a region's culture?
language, food, religious practices
climate zones, earth-sun relationship, personal habits
city size, tectonic activity, average rainfall
population density, movement, elevation
9
Folk culture's distribution is...
Everywhere due to globalization
limited by physical features and access to materials
Nowhere
limited to the internet
10
Religions that attempt to attract all people to their beliefs are classified as
universalizing religions
ethnic religions
polytheistic religions
monotheistic religions
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What is NOT a factor in the creation of different dialects?
spelling
pronunciation
economics
vocabulary
12
Folk culture is practiced by small homogeneous groups in isolated, rural areas.
False
True
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People in a culture adopt an underlying idea or process from another culture, but modify it
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
expansion diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
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This chart shows that English is a(n)
lingua franca
pidgin language
official language
dialect
15
What is the largest universalizing religion today?
Hinduism
Christianity
Buddhism
Islam
16
Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese are all part of
Romance languages
Germanic languages
Sino - Tibetan languages
Altaic languages
17
A hearth is...
The region in which ideas originate.
A mother language.
The spread of an idea over time.
Fireplace bricks.
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The two religions that originated in India were _____ and _____.
Hinduism and Confucianism
Hinduism and Buddhism
Buddhism and Islam
Buddhism and Shintoism
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Which would be considered an action influenced by culture?
People from South America continue to immigrate to the United States.
Heavy flooding forced people to move away from the New Orleans area.
The communist government of the Soviet Union forced farmers off their land.
The Amish people continue to use horses & wagons as transportation today.
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Includes all of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects
culture
folk culture
pop culture
invisible culture
21
Which of the following is NOT a Romance language?
Greek
Portuguese
Italian
Romanian
22
What was the world's first monotheistic religion?
Hinduism
Jainism
Judaism
Shintoism
23
These are examples of culture except for:
language
religion
daily life activities
economics
24
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
Groups living in isolated rural areas
groups of specialists
Large Heterogeneous Groups
Small Homogeneous Groups
25
This region of the world is most likely the hearth of what language family?
Indo - European
Altaic
Austro - Asiatic
Sino - Tibetan
26
Is the study of how and why cultures vary over space.
Cultural Landscape
Cultural geography
Cultural traits
Cultural Complexes
27
What is the second largest language family?
Sino-Tibetan
Austronesian
Afro-Asiatic
Indo-European
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What is an example of hierarchical diffusion?
Migrants bringing their music culture to the US
A celebrity adopting a new hairstyle and starting a trend
Finding out about a new song from your cousin
McDonald's building restaurants in India but not serving beef
29
Cultural landscape refers to landscapes that have been affected, influenced, or shaped by
architects
humans
nature
animals
30
Folk music...
is created by well-known artists
has urban hearths
is made to generate profit
has anonymous authors over generations
31
What language is spoken in the northern part of Belgium?
Flemish/Dutch
French
English
German
32
Most Muslims are
Sikhs
Sunni
Kurdish
Shiite
33
An example of non-material culture:
house
religious belief
American flag
basketball
34
The process of spreading new ideas from one culture to another is called:
cultural contact
cultural diffusion
agricultural revolution
industrial revolution
35
Popular culture's distribution is...
limited by physical features and access to materials
Nowhere
On the moon
Everywhere due to globalization
36
What is folk culture?
Homogenous
Slowly changing / stagnant
Rural
All of the above
37
Based on the image, we can conclude that
cultural elements are rarely shared between regions.
very little is shared between cultural regions.
cultural elements spread as people move between regions.
foods are the same from one cultural region to the next.
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A dialect is...
a local farm
a language family
a local form of family
a local form of language
39
As part of the 5 pillars of their beliefs, if able Muslims are expected to travel to
Palestine
Mecca
Madrid
Israel
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This language is not related to any other languages in Europe and can be found on the border of France and Spain...
Latin
Macedonian
Basque
Catalán
