WorksheetsAPHuG Culture
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
The current distribution of languages around the world is largely a result of
social media
the Internet
Rosetta Stone sales
migration
high school requirements to learn a second language
A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a
dialect
language branch
language family
language group
language root
What are the two largest language families in the world?
Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic
Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan
Altaic and Nilo-Saharan
Austronesian and Indo-European
Which language is NOT a romance language?
Romanian
Italian
Greek
French
Spanish
A lingua franca is
an English word that has entered the French language
a language understood by people who have different native languages
an extinct language that has been revived
an official language in a region of the world different from where the language originated
a language used by French colonial administrations
A pidgin language
has no native speakers.
is spread by folk culture.
stems from invasion.
cannot exist for more than a generation.
cannot exist without globalization
English has achieved unprecedented acceptance globally due to
the refusal to use English in colonial and imperial expansion.
the diffusion of command economies across much of the world.
its role as the common language of a global economy and culture.
the rise of folk culture and the decline of popular culture.
the diffusion of religion to industrialized nations.
A regional variation of a language including distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation of words is called a(n)
vigorous language.
isogloss.
developing language.
dialect.
official language.
An isogloss is
a form of a language spoken in a local area.
a collection of unique words.
a boundary between language regions.
a blending of two language families.
a line that separates literary traditions.
A language that was nearly extinct in British-controlled areas but which is now being revived is
Slavic
Celtic
Iranian
English
Pictish
The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of
Iceland's close contact with other people and activities.
migration by German tribes.
Iceland's relative isolation from other places.
the extinction of the East Germanic group.
continuous exchange with Norway and Sweden.
language is important to culture because
it is the main determinant of popular and folk culture
it is the means of spreading cultural ideas
it is not important to culture
it only belongs to folk culture
it only spreadsthrough contagious diffusion
What is spatial diffusion?
The spread of cultural traits between different groups of people
An early center of diffusion
When clutures have certain traits in common
When clutures express certain traits in public
Examples of ethnic religions include
Hinduism and Buddhism.
Buddhism, Judaism, and Hinduism.
Daoism, Confucianism, and Judaism.
Confucianism and Islam
Which of the following would be more characteristic of a universalizing religion?
Priests and adherents of a particular church pledge that they will not support warfare in any form.
Priests follow a calendar of religious services based largely on seasonal changes.
Several priests travel across the world to establish missions on remote islands.
Several priests build temples at the tops of the world's highest volcanoes.
The example of Jerusalem indicates that in regards to the geographic landscape,
the population of Jerusalem is majority Christian but surrounded by majority Jewish and Muslim populations on either side.
there is almost always a clear distinction between the uses of sacred spaces by both ethnic and universalizing religions.
the sacred sites for universalizing religions do not overlap with the sacred sites of ethnic religions.
sacred sites may be equally important to universalizing and ethnic religions.
With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment,
religious ideas nearly all arise from changes in the physical environment.
religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment.
all religions appeal primarily to people living in their land of origin.
few religions derive meaningful events from the physical environment.
Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?
Christianity
Sikhism
Judaism
Buddhism
McDonalds menus in India contain many vegetarian choices not found here in the United States. This is an example of -
stimulus diffusion
relocation diffusion
contagious diffusion
non-diffusion
