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latin America - Culture - 3

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What language is the most popular in most Latin American countries?

a)

French

b)

Spanish

c)

English

d)

Creole

2.

What’s the most popular religion?

a)

Judaism

b)

Christianity

c)

Islam

d)

Buddhism

3.

Mestizos are descendants of what two groups?

a)

European and Natives

b)

African and European

c)

African and Native

d)

Asian and Native

4.

Mulattoes are descendants of what two groups?

a)

Asian and Native

b)

European and Native

c)

African and Native

d)

African and European

5.

Indigenous means what?

a)

Native or original

b)

Foreigner

c)

Immigrants

d)

Descendants of natives

6.

Descendants of what ethnic group take up the Caribbean?

a)

European

b)

Natives

c)

Asian

d)

African

7.

The triangular trade brought what goods from Africa to Latin America?

a)

Gold

b)

Slaves

c)

Timber

d)

Tea and spices

8.

What sport is the most popular in Latin America?

a)

Tennis

b)

Basketball

c)

Football

d)

Soccer

9.

Day of the Dead is mainly celebrated in what country?

a)

Mexico

b)

Haiti

c)

Jamaica

d)

Brazil

10.

Carnival is the most popular in which country?

a)

Belize

b)

Mexico

c)

Brazil

d)

Argentina

11.

What are murals?

a)

Celebratory Food

b)

Rules that everyone follows

c)

Corn

d)

Large Portraits

12.

What impact did the Europeans have on the religion of Latin America?

a)

Islam was introduced to Latin America and has become the predominant religion of the region

b)

Buddhism was introduced to Latin America and has become the predominant religion of the region.

c)

Roman Catholicism was introduced to Latin America and has become the predominant religion of the region.

13.

Which are reasons for the growing tourism in Latin America?

a)

healthy beaches

b)

rain forest

c)

cultural arts

d)

all of the above

14.

The United States has an economy based on __________________ where private individuals can make money by innovating and creating new ideas and products and bringing them to market. The economic system of __________________ is based on a communist system in which the government controls the availability of products and the cost of things.

a)

Socialism…Canada

b)

Free enterprise…Canada

c)

Free enterprise…Cuba

15.

If the parts to your car are manufactured in Mexico, but your car is assembled in the United States, this is an example of ______

a)

Economic independence

b)

Economic interdependence

c)

Economic freedom

16.

Colonization in North America has resulted in many common cultural traits among Mexico, the US and Canada. All of the following have similar forms in all three countries EXCEPT:

a)

forms of language

b)

economic forms

c)

forms of government

17.

Guatemala 13.0 mill. 309/sq. mile

Jamaica 2.7 mill. 628/sq. mile

Mexico 101.9 mill. 134/sq. mile

Panama 2.8 mill. 94/sq. mile

Which country would be considered most crowded?

a)

Guatemala

b)

Jamaica

c)

Mexico

18.

Which of the following is one way language patterns in the Caribbean were affected by cultural diffusion?

a)

Several European languages replaced many indigenous languages.

b)

Spanish became the official language of the Caribbean islands.

c)

Languages from West Africa came to dominate in the Caribbean.

d)

English eventually displaced other languages in the region.

19.

One of the negative effects of the cultural diffusion Latin America experienced during the age of European exploration of the New World included —

a)

an expansion of the slave trade

b)

an increased number of dangerous storms

c)

the introduction of cattle ranching

d)

the destruction of the tropical rainforests

20.

How was most of the labor supplied to sugar plantations in Brazil during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

a)

by Spanish nobility

b)

by bartering

c)

by the trans-Atlantic slave trade

d)

by the willing farmers