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Language, Culture and Migration

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How could the document below help preserve a dying language?

a)

it demonstrates official government support

b)

when people fill out documents they show they are literate

c)

people who speak minority languages pay lower taxes

d)

the language on the document is widely used on the internet

2.

This chart is evidence that English is a

a)

pidgin language

b)

official language

c)

dialect

d)

lingua franca

3.

French Creole is a ____________ that combined two simplified languages to form a lingua franca.

a)

pidgin language

b)

official language

c)

logograms

d)

isolated language

4.

Which are the two language FAMILIES with the largest amount of speakers?

a)

Sino - Tibetan + Dravidian

b)

Austroasiatic + Austronesian

c)

Japanese + Indo - European

d)

Altaic + Uralic

e)

Indo - European + Sino - Tibetan

5.
Spanglish...would most likely be found in areas with higher Hispanic populations located in the ______ region of the United States.
a)
Northeast
b)
Midwest
c)
Southwest
d)
Gulf Coast
e)

Northwest

6.
What caused the distribution of English language speakers throughout the world?
a)
Native English Speakers
b)
British colonization
c)
Decision to make English the lingua franca
d)
U.S. World dominance
e)

The spread of Christianity

7.

A regional variation of a language including distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation of words is called a(n)

a)

vigorous language.

b)

isogloss.

c)

developing language.

d)

dialect.

e)

official language.

8.

Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous , rural group.

a)

Custom

b)

Folk

c)

Popular

d)

Habit

9.

large; incorporates heterogeneous populations; urban; experiences quickly changing traits

a)

Folk Culture

b)

Popular Culture

c)

Local Culture

d)

Material Culture

10.

Many religions, when they expand into a new region, begin to incorporate some of the elements of the previous religious customs of the new adherents. This process is called

a)

globalization

b)

syncretism

c)

acculturation

d)

assimilation

e)

conversion

11.

Which is an example of a non-material aspect of culture?

a)

church building

b)

religious decoration

c)

burning of incense

d)

an altar

12.

The ________ of a group of people includes the things they construct.

a)

non-material culture

b)

folk culture

c)

material culture

d)

pop culture

13.

Which of the following is the belief that one's own culture is the best or better than other cultures?

a)

Ethos

b)

Ethnocentrism

c)

Prejudice

d)

Stereotyping

e)

Acculturation

14.

Which of the following terms best describes the food preferences, architecture, and land-use practices found in a particular region?

a)

Cultural relativism

b)

Ethnocentrism

c)

Culture traits

d)

Unitary state

e)

Culture hearth

15.

A person living in Town A moves three times, as shown in the diagram, and settles in Town D. This is an example of

a)

Chain migration

b)

Step migration

c)

Distance decay

d)

Intervening obstacle

e)

Intervening opportunity

16.

All of the following are examples of forced migration EXCEPT

a)

the Trail of Tears in the early 19th century

b)

the Atlantic slave trade

c)

the California gold rush in the mid-19th century

d)

the Irish Potato Famine from 1846 to 1850

e)

the Japanese interment camps during World War II

17.

You are planning to move from your hometown to Nashville. Along the way, you stop in Auburn, Alabama to visit a relative and fall in love with the city! You decide to stay and make Auburn your new home. This is an example of

a)

intervening opportunity

b)

distance decay

c)

involuntary migration

d)

push-pull factors

e)

transhumance

18.

The nineteenth-century emigration of a large number of Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to Isanti County, Minnesota, as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them there is an example of

a)

brain drain

b)

chain migration

c)

net migration

d)

internal migration

e)

counterurbanizationn

19.

Which of the following is the primary reason people migrate.

a)

Economic opportunity

b)

Cultural oppression

c)

Overpopulation

d)

pollution

e)

Family

20.

(a)   is the movement of people outside of a country(nonnatives) into a country to permanently settle there.