Deck 5: Cultural Geographies

Question 1

Ontario is home to almost three-quarters of Canada's ________ population.

A) Hindu
B) Muslim

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Ceremonies or celebrations that mark transitions in human life are known as

A) rites of passage.
B) genres de vie.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is the "humanized" version of the other?

A) cultural landscape
B) natural landscape

Answer 3

A

Question 4

India's internal state identities are fairly closely aligned with different

A) languages.
B) religions.

Question 5

According to ________,a family is an entity composed of human and nonhumans,like the dog,the house,the car,the cellphone and the TV.

A) Actor-network theory
B) Non-representational theory

Question 6

The French geographical concept of genre de vie most closely resembles what we call a cultural

A) complex.
B) trait.

Question 7

The practice of creating unequal castes where whiteness is considered the norm is recognized as

A) racialization.
B) racism.

Question 8

All Indo-European languages (including Russian,Hindi,English,Spanish,and German)are all part of the same language

A) family.
B) branch.

Question 9

As explained in our text,researchers in the area of human identity and sexuality point out that gender is something that we

A) do.
B) are.

Question 10

In contrast to anthropologists,geographers study how culture

A) shapes and is shaped by space and place.
B) is created and maintained by human groups.

Question 11

The single strongest common feature that ties together the various sounds,cultures and artists of global hip-hop is

A) social struggle.
B) money.

Question 12

This theory helps geographers examine indeterminate events in which things shift suddenly and unexpectedly,e.g.,the 2011 political protests in Wisconsin and Egypt,with global implications.

A) Non-representational theory
B) Actor-network theory

Question 13

According to actor-network theory (ANT),nonhuman and inanimate things,and not just humans,have

A) agency.
B) affect.

Question 14

In his autobiography Dreams from My Father,President Obama describes his parents thus: "[my father] was black as pitch and my mother white as milk." The fact that we celebrate him as the U.S.'s first black president is consistent with our text's contention that "whiteness" is a category of difference that depends on ________ distinctions.

A) visual
B) biological

Question 15

From the following two,which belief system newer and evolved from the other?

A) Buddhism
B) Hinduism

Question 16

Montreal's Gay Village is an example of how gay and lesbian consumerism is contributing to the transformation of the ________.

A) urban landscape
B) zone of transition

Question 17

Regional variations in language are common,and referred to as

A) dialects.
B) language branches.

Question 18

Descansos along roadsides in Mexico and Spain are examples of cultural

A) traits.
B) systems.

Question 19

A language group is a collection of several individual languages that is part of a language branch,shares a common origin in the recent past,and has relatively similar ________.

A) grammar and dialect
B) grammar and vocabulary

Question 20

Gender is an identity,and reflects ________ differences between men and women.

A) social
B) biological

Question 21

A cultural system of traits,territorial affiliation,and shared history

A) does not allow for internal variation within the system.
B) helps shape a group's collective identity.
C) means that all group members speak the same language.
D) means that all group members practice the same religion.
E) means the group is racist.

Question 22

Coming of age ceremonies - marking the transition from childhood into adulthood - are examples of

A) rites of passage.
B) cultural transitions.
C) genre de vie.
D) folk culture.
E) sexual identity.

Question 23

Despite having a long history and followers around the world,Judaism does not have many followers.In large part,this is because Judaism

A) does not seek converts.
B) is a polytheistic religion.
C) is an off-shoot of the much more popular Sikhism.
D) like Feng Shui, is just a passing fad.
E) recognizes Saturday as the holy day, which conflicts with Saturday as a day of work and play.

Question 24

The world's four major world religions

A) originated and diffused from two fairly small areas of the globe.
B) emerged from the world's core regions.
C) diffused from the New World following the Columbian Exchange.
D) began in the region of modern-day Israel/Palestine/Arabian Peninsula.
E) were spread around the world with European imperialism.

Question 25

Missionizing religions

A) actively seek converts.
B) are identified with particular ethnic or tribal groups.
C) do not seek converts.
D) are place based.
E) eschew missionaries.

Question 26

To human geographers,culture

A) is a shared sets of meanings.
B) is lived through the materials and symbolic practices of everyday live.
C) includes values, beliefs, practices, language, identities.
D) can be transformed by forces internal and external to particular groups.
E) is all of the above.

Question 27

A materialist approach is about attempting to understand the ways that specific properties of material things affect the ________ between humans and nonhuman entities.

A) interactions
B) conflict

Question 28

The English spoken in Ontario and the English spoken in Australia can best be characterized as two different

A) dialects.
B) language families.
C) language groups.
D) languages.
E) language branches.

Question 29

Human-built features over a land surface - such as small dairy farms over the Wisconsin countryside or vineyards over California's Napa Valley - are examples of

A) cultural landscapes.
B) cultural agents.
C) cultural media.
D) natural landscapes.
E) natural agents.

Question 30

________ is/are the heart and soul of the globalized Hip-Hop Nation.

A) Music
B) African-Americans
C) Gangs
D) Justice for minorities
E) The Bronx, New York

Question 31

________ was an American pioneer in exploring and understanding the many ways that humans transform the surface of the earth to create cultural landscapes.

A) Carl Sauer
B) Notorious B.I.G.
C) the Dalai Lama
D) Paul Knox
E) Paul Vidal de la Blache

Question 32

Carl Sauer,H.C.Darby and Paul Vidal de la Blache placed ________ at the heart and centre of their studies of human-environment interactions.

A) cultural landscapes
B) natural landscapes
C) climatological factors
D) language and religion
E) economics and politics

Question 33

Pork avoidance among Muslims,eating fish on Fridays among Roman Catholics,bar mitzvahs among Jews and eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day in the U.S.South are all

A) cultural traits.
B) rites of passage.
C) coming-of-age ceremonies.
D) dietary restrictions.
E) genres de vie.

Question 34

To be in the same family,languages must share the same

A) vocabulary.
B) alphabet (or script).
C) origins.
D) grammar.
E) dialect.

Question 35

A cultural region is an area where certain cultural practices,beliefs,and values

A) are shared by the majority.
B) share the same origins.
C) originate.
D) are linked by an official language or lingua franca.
E) are linked by the same religion.

Question 36

Before the Colombian Exchange and contact with the Old World,the people of the Americas practiced

A) Shamanism and animism.
B) Buddhism and Sikhism.
C) Orthodox Christianity.
D) Liberation theology.
E) Shiism and Sunnism.

Question 37

In our postcolonial era,the flow of religious influence is increasingly from

A) periphery to core.
B) core to periphery.
C) core to core.
D) periphery to periphery.
E) urban to rural.

Question 38

Diasporas have contributed especially to the spread of ________ around the world.

A) religion
B) disease
C) dialects
D) conflict
E) trade

Question 39

The Dalai Lama travels the world supporting the people of Tibet and promoting

A) Buddhism.
B) Catholicism.
C) Hinduism.
D) Islam.
E) non-violent protestantism.

Question 40

Early French geographers interested in cultural landscapes examined how France's various genres de vie emerged from the constraints and possibilities posed by local

A) physical environments.
B) political and economic systems.
C) cultures.
D) diasporas.
E) cultural environments.

Question 41

Muslim is to Islam as

A) Christian is to Christianity.
B) Hindu is to Hindi.
C) Turkish is to Arabic.
D) English is to Latin.
E) English is to European.

Question 42

Whereas race is a problematic way of differentiating human beings based on physical characteristics such as skin color,________ creates differences out of cultural traits and complexes.

A) ethnicity
B) gender
C) class
D) racism
E) cultural nationalism

Question 43

The practice of canon law for Catholics,which requires fasting during the holy season of Lent,

A) is among the primary obligations of Catholics.
B) is a rite of passage for Catholics.
C) constitutes a cultural trait.
D) is known as a bar mitzvah.
E) is a coming-of-age ceremony.

Question 44

According to Sauer's model,________ is (are)important in the creation of cultural landscapes.

A) time
B) cultural practices
C) natural landscapes
D) geology and climate
E) all of the above

Question 45

The British historical geographer H.C.Darby was best known for

A) understanding how past geographies changed, or evolved, into more recent geographies.
B) starting the first geography department in England (at Oxford).
C) writing the domes day Book documenting England's dialects.
D) interpreting the Old English dialect spoken by William the Conqueror.
E) making the first religious map of Asia.

Question 46

The use of language distinctive of a particular group is known as a(n)

A) dialect.
B) idiom.
C) diaspora.
D) drawl.
E) colloquialism.

Question 47

Cultural geography

A) is concerned only with material culture.
B) is no longer relevant because the world has become homogeneous.
C) explores the interactions of culture with space, place, and landscape.
D) was denounced for its racist and upper-class bias by Carl Sauer.
E) cannot be influenced by a whole range of interactions.

Question 48

The greatest concentration of UNESCO World Heritage sites is in

A) Europe.
B) North America.
C) Africa.
D) Asia.
E) South America.

Question 49

Islam attempts to protect the purity and centrality of Islamic precepts through

A) a return to a universal Islamic state.
B) jihad.
C) hajj.
D) the Five Pillars.
E) secular democracy.

Question 50

The "shared set of meanings" of culture generally refers to

A) religious practices.
B) family values.
C) historical understandings.
D) ideas about gender roles.
E) all of the above

Question 51

An illustration of the absence of a homogenous global culture is

A) postcards.
B) comic books.
C) world music.
D) card games.
E) the Olympics.

Question 52

Diasporas

A) occur when people of a homogeneous group are dispersed from their traditional home region.
B) occurred frequently during biblical times, but have been rare since.
C) has been the most common reason for conversion to Christianity.
D) refers solely to the emigration of people from the region of Palestine.
E) no longer exist.

Question 53

According to Carl Sauer,a cultural landscape

A) exists prior to human habitation of the given landscape.
B) need not require a natural landscape.
C) results from the action of a cultural group within and on a landscape.
D) is an old-fashioned concept with limited use by contemporary geographers.
E) is a non-tangible outcome of the simplistic interactions between a human group and a natural environment.

Question 54

On world maps of religion like the one in our text,Central and South America are represented as Roman Catholic and

A) local religions.
B) Protestant.
C) Eastern Orthodox.
D) Buddhist.
E) Muslim.

Question 55

French geographer Vidal de la Blache

A) thought that how people obtained their livelihoods was important for geographers.
B) concentrated on studying large geographical units.
C) found that industrialization had only a small impact on rural France.
D) got his formal geographic training under Paul Knox and Sallie Marston.
E) attempted to understand how past geographies changed, or evolved, into more recent geographies.

Question 56

A human geographer studying gender issues would most likely study

A) comparison of men's to women's salaries.
B) prostitution in and around red-light districts.
C) the international sex trade.
D) fashions and attitudes of homosexuals.
E) pink spending.

Question 57

Confirmation of 12-year-old boys and girls in the Roman Catholic Church is best described as a

A) cultural trait.
B) rite of passage.
C) cultural complex.
D) bar mitzvah.
E) bat mitzvah.

Question 58

The most widespread and effective anticolonial,anti-imperialist,and generally anticore movement to challenge the modernizing and secularizing forces of globalization has been

A) Islam.
B) postmodernism.
C) jihad.
D) cultural nationalism.
E) post colonialism.

Question 59

About ________ of the world's people speaks a language that is in the Indo-European family.

A) 5 percent
B) 50 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 25 percent
E) 1 percent

Question 60

The idea of an emerging,homogenous global culture is based on the perception of a pervasive

A) Americanization.
B) Wal-Maritization.
C) materialism.
D) cultural nationalism.
E) hybridization.

Question 61

Buddhism originated in

A) Jordan.
B) Saudi Arabia.
C) Thailand.
D) Japan.
E) India.

Question 62

The leadership of hip-hop is predominantly

A) black and male.
B) black and female.
C) white and male.
D) white and female.
E) Latino and male.

Question 63

Which of the following terms is most likely to encompass the largest number of languages?

A) language family
B) language branch
C) language group
D) language dialect
E) language collective

Question 64

Of the following religions,which was founded most recently?

A) Islam
B) Buddhism
C) Christianity
D) Hinduism
E) Daoism

Question 65

Islam

A) attempts to maintain a strict Islamic fundamentalism.
B) is concerned about individualism and the corrupting influence of the core.
C) advocates the integration of Western values into Islamic society.
D) opposes all forms of cultural nationalism.
E) incorporates all the religions introduced by the prophet Muhammad.

Question 66

Hinduism originated in modern-day

A) China.
B) Iran.
C) India.
D) Burma.
E) Israel.

Question 67

Though the United States runs a trade deficit of many hundreds of billions of dollars per year,the U.S.________ industry actually runs a trade surplus of around $25 billion.It is the USA's leading source of foreign income.

A) entertainment
B) clothing
C) soft drink
D) cell phone
E) automobile

Question 68

Which of the following countries or regions is least likely to engage in cultural nationalism?

A) France
B) United States
C) Quebec
D) Saudi Arabia
E) Britain

Question 69

Bob Marley,Huey Newton and James Brown are all major forefathers of:

A) reggae.
B) hip-hop.
C) alternative rock.
D) classical music.
E) rhythm and blues.

Question 70

About 50 percent of the global population speaks languages belonging to the ________ language family.

A) Caucasian
B) Afro-Asiatic
C) Sino-Tibetan
D) Indo-European
E) Amerind

Question 71

The cultural hearth of Islam is in

A) Saudi Arabia, in the Middle East.
B) Egypt, North Africa.
C) Indonesia and Malaysia, Southeast Asia.
D) the Balkans, in Europe.
E) China, in East Asia.

Question 72

From a biological standpoint,race does not exist.Practically,however,the term has come to refer to

A) the places of certain ethnic groups, such as the Chinese in a "Chinatown."
B) differences between people based on skin color and other physical characteristics.
C) differences in cultures and practice.
D) differences between people as determined by intelligence tests.
E) differences between people as determined by where they originate from.

Question 73

Prior to European contact and colonization,the peoples of the Americas practiced

A) Shintoism.
B) Animism and Shamanism.
C) Buddhism and Taoism.
D) Sikhism.
E) Mormonism.

Question 74

Power differences between men and women in a society are determined primarily by

A) biological differences.
B) society and culture.
C) physical geography.
D) performance in standardized testing.
E) the suburbs.

Question 75

As explained in the course text,veiling across the Islamic world refers to

A) dressing modestly.
B) dressing plainly.
C) covering a woman's face.
D) keeping women away from public places.
E) rejecting material culture.

Question 76

Protestantism is least prevalent in

A) the United States.
B) northern Europe.
C) Australia.
D) South America.
E) South Africa.

Question 77

Outside Israel,Judaism is concentrated in

A) South America and the Caribbean.
B) Europe and North America.
C) West Africa.
D) West Asia.
E) East Asia.

Question 78

Gender is something people

A) are.
B) inhabit.
C) do.
D) consume.
E) choose.

Question 79

Of the following religions,which is oldest?

A) Hinduism
B) Sikhism
C) Buddhism
D) Islam
E) Bahai

Question 80

On world maps of religion like the one in our text,Quebec,Canada is represented almost uniformly as

A) Protestant.
B) Roman Catholic.
C) Orthodox.
D) Buddhist.
E) Secularist.