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WorksheetsEdge Culture Vocabulary pt. 2 Quiz
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is hypersegregation?
a)
Expedient segregation
b)
Geographuic separation of cities and towns
c)
Geographuic separation of ethnicities
d)
Life in the big city
2.
This is the process by which a less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of a more dominant culture.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Acculturation
c)
Syncretism
d)
Migrant diffusion.
3.
This is the process by which a less dominant culture adopts the traits of a more dominant culture so completely that the two cultures become indistinguishable.
a)
Assimilation
b)
Acculturation
c)
Syncretism
d)
Migrant diffusion.
4.
Which statement about universalizing religions is correct?
a)
A universalizing religion is one into which people are born.
b)
A universalizing religion is usually easy to join.
c)
A universalizing religion seeks converts from other religions.
d)
B and C only.
5.
In Europe, many Catholics are less likely to attend church or be active in their religious community. This is due to the rise of
a)
Protestantism
b)
Shamanism
c)
Communism
d)
Secularism
6.
Which pair are both considered ethnic religions?
a)
Judaism and Christianity.
b)
Christianity and Islam.
c)
Islam and Hinduism.
d)
Hinduism and Judaism.
7.
Numerically speaking, which of the following religions has the smallest number of adherents?
a)
Judaism
b)
Christianity
c)
Hinduism
d)
Buddhism
8.
Which country would be a good example of a theocracy?
a)
Iran
b)
Iraq
c)
India
d)
Japan
9.
What is the term for a group of people who identify with their cultural and biological history?
a)
Race
b)
Ethnicity
c)
Nationality
d)
Nation
10.
Ethnocentrism is
a)
the fear of outsiders.
b)
the belief that Westerners are superior to African and Asian cultures.
c)
the belief that one‟s own religion is superior to others.
d)
the belief that one’s own ethnic group/culture is superior to others.
11.
In large cities, people with the same culture often live in segregated areas called
a)
the suburbs.
b)
ethnic enclaves.
c)
cultural agglomerations.
d)
cultural exclaves.
12.
What process contributes to the existence and growth of ethnic enclaves in urban areas?
a)
Cultural diffusion.
b)
Step migration.
c)
Cultural integration.
d)
Chain migration.
13.
A payment of money or goods from the family of a bride to the groom‟s father is called a
a)
marriage tax.
b)
groom‟s gift.
c)
dowry
d)
bridal tithe.
14.
The dominant branch of Islam is
a)
Sunni
b)
Shia
c)
Sikh
d)
Eastern Orthodoxy.
15.
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)
enlightenment can be achieved by all people.
16.
The belief in the existence of only one god is
a)
animism
b)
cosmogony
c)
monotheism
d)
polytheism
17.
The concept of a ghetto originally referred to the area of a city
a)
inside the walls.
b)
inhabited by the lowest-income people
c)
where Jews were forced to live.
d)
where most blacks lived.
18.
Comparing ethnicity and race reveals
a)
they are very similar concepts.
b)
ethnicity is part of a person's cultural identity but race is not.
c)
race is a better indicator of what someone is like than ethnicity.
d)
ethnicity is based on biology but race is part of one’s culture.
19.
The process when an ethnic group forcibly removes another group is called
a)
war
b)
racism
c)
ethnic cleansing.
d)
white flight.
20.
The Western Wall, The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Dome of the Rock are all sacred spaces in what city?
a)
Mecca
b)
Jerusalem
c)
Istanbul
d)
Baghdad
21.
Little Italy and Chinatown are examples in North American cities of
a)
ethnic homelands.
b)
plural societies.
c)
ethnic
d)
ethnic enclaves.
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