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Language, Communication, and Belief
Language, Communication, and Belief
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1
Who is most likely to employ "vocal fry"?
Kim Kardashian
LeBron James
Jeff Bezos
Angela Merkel
2
Which is not one of the fundamental human facial expressions?
Trust
Disgust
Sadness
Anger
3
Which of the following is a good example of a fusion language?
NYC's Garifuna
German
Nicaraguan sign language
Quenya in Lord of the Rings
4
Which of the following is NOT one of the Abrahamic religions?
Scientology
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
5
Someone who is "functionally illiterate" would have difficulty with which of the following?
Taking the SAT
Listening to lyrical music
Writing down a phone number
Reading a sign on the street
6
Which of the following is NOT likely a "sacred space"?
The Wailing Wall
Angkor Wat
The Vatican
Burj Khalifa
7
The use of language distinctive of a particular group is known as
diaspora
dialect
drawl
idiom
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A person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in a God/higher power
Agnostic
Heretic
Atheist
Evangelist
9
The "wearing out" of words is known as
linguistic weathering
etymological destruction
etymological diffusion
linguistic erosion
10
According to MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky, we are all born with this
AED
Our first language
CPR
LAD
11
The oldest existing denomination of Christianity
Calvinism
Protestantism
Catholicism
Eastern Orthodox
12
Currently, around the world, there are nearly ________ living languages.
70
700
70000
7000
13
Which of the following countries is an outlier on the graph of PPP($) vs. Religiosity?
Australia
Brazil
United States
Nigeria
14
Which of the following terms is most likely to encompass the largest number of languages?
Language Family
Language Branch
Language Root
Language Group
15
Which of the following is NOT one of the Four Noble Truths?
Life is Suffering
Follow the Eightfold Path
Freedom from Suffering requires the Hajj
The cause of Suffering is Desire
16
Second-largest religion in the world
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
17
Which of the following is most likely to experience linguistic weathering?
"YOLO!"
"Unfriend me"
"Awesome!"
"That's unfortunate."
18
Where would you be more likely to use "Standard Language"?
In a noraebang
Home
On the soccer pitch
At school
19
According to the book, which of the following is the least "intimate" form of communication?
Facebook
Video chat
E-mail
Twitter
20
According to Philip Zimbardo, which culture has no future tense verb form in their dialect?
Inuit
Sicilian
Amondawa
Aboriginal
