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WorksheetsIntro Folk & Popular Culture Exam
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 50mins
The French language, how to weave a basket, and the belief in ancestral spirits are all examples of
Mentifacts
Artifacts
Cultural hearths
Cultural traits
Dialects
A group of people with a common culture and history who occupy an area are called
A state
A country
A nation
A political state
A nation-state
The charter group of Quebec, Canada, was the
British
Germans
French
Irish
Spanish
Which of the following characteristics is more typical of a popular culture than a folk culture?
It has an anonymous origin.
It diffuses slowly from its points of origin
It results in a more uniform landscape.
It is likely to be derived from physical conditions.
Communication is more limited.
Folk culture is spread primarily by
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
Epidemic diffusion
Rapid diffusion of popular culture
Encourages people in different places to adopt different customs
Depends on modern communications systems
Is an example of relocation diffusion
Conserves resources
All of the above
Typically, popular culture
Originates in a number of locations at the same time.
Reflects the characteristics of a distinctive physical environment
Experiences frequent changes
Is practiced by small homogeneous groups
All of the above
Historically, cultural diffusion patterns in the United States have tended to flow in which general direction?
East to west
West to east
North to south
South to north
Northwest to southeast
Pioneer farmers settling the grasslands of the American West often built houses of sod, while early settlers of eastern forests built wooden structures like log cabins. This suggests that building materials
Are strongly influenced by local resources
Are commonly imported long distances because of local folk culture.
Are chosen because of the diffusion of popular culture
Are a uniform feature of folk culture
All of the above
The persistence of ethnic urban enclaves in major American cities could be cited as evidence to support all of the following phenomena EXCEPT
chain migration
residential segregation
structural assimilation
multiculturalism
multinucleated urban structure
The diffusion of jeans is a good example primarily of the
Diffusion of popular culture
Adoption of unique folk culture
Impact of high income on clothing habits
Opposition to globalization
Synthetic replacing natural fibers
Compared to popular cultures, folk cultures are
more cosmopolitan
more homogeneous
more diffused
more transitory
more contagious
A dialect is best classified as which of the following?
Cultural complex
Cultural trait
Language branch
Language group
Language family
A Mormon church located in a rural area of northwestern Colorado is most likely the result of which kind of diffusion?
Expansion
Relocation
Hierarchical
Maladaptive
Stimulus
A new fashion trend originating in New York City that diffuses to Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo before reaching rural areas of New York state would be an example of which of the following kinds of diffusion?
Contagious
Hierarchical
Uniform
Relocation
Stimulus
All of the following belong to the Indo-European language family EXCEPT
Hindi
Urdu
Farsi (Persian)
Mandarin
Dutch
Which of the following toponyms best belongs in a formal culture region defined by common traits of Catholicism and Spanish language?
Dar es Salaam
Saint Paul
San Jose
Tel Aviv
Fauske
Which of the following is NOT an example of a cultural landscape?
A canal that connects two rivers
A highway between two major cities in a country
A tropical jungle
Terraced fields of crops up a mountainside
A city skyline
Toponym is the study of
Place names
Extinct languages
Ethnic religions
Dialects
Folk cultures
A type of diffusion in which cultural ideas and artifacts spread to prominent people and/or larger places before they spread to ordinary people and/or smaller places is called
Contagious diffusion
Migrant diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Which statement/phrase represents popular culture?
Oprah Winfrey
Tennis shoes
An American president encourages Americans to wage war against a combative nation.
A Canadian moces to Washington State (US) and teaches their neighbors to prepare poutine.
Chickasaw Indian Rain Dance
Which statement/phrase represents folk culture?
Oprah Winfrey
Tennis shoes
An American president encourages Americans to wage war against a combative nation.
A Canadian moces to Washington State (US) and teaches their neighbors to prepare poutine.
Chickasaw Indian Rain Dance
Which statement/phrase represents material culture?
Oprah Winfrey
Tennis shoes
An American president encourages Americans to wage war against a combative nation.
A Canadian moces to Washington State (US) and teaches their neighbors to prepare poutine.
Chickasaw Indian Rain Dance
Which statement/phrase represents relocation diffusion?
Oprah Winfrey
Tennis shoes
An American president encourages Americans to wage war against a combative nation.
A Canadian moces to Washington State (US) and teaches their neighbors to prepare poutine.
Chickasaw Indian Rain Dance
Which statement/phrase represents hierarchical diffusion?
Oprah Winfrey
Tennis shoes
An American president encourages Americans to wage war against a combative nation.
A Canadian moces to Washington State (US) and teaches their neighbors to prepare poutine.
Chickasaw Indian Rain Dance
