Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities, 11th Edition (Fellmann)

Chapter 5: Language and Religion: Mosaics of Culture

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1			Which of the following serves as an official language of more countries than any other?
			A)	French
			B)	English
			C)	Arabic
			D)	Spanish
2			Which of the following would not qualify as a Germanic language?
			A)	Welsh
			B)	English
			C)	Dutch
			D)	Norwegian
3			Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi are languages common to:
			A)	Afghanistan and Tibet.
			B)	Iraq and Iran.
			C)	India and Pakistan.
			D)	Indonesia and the Philippines.
4			The part of the world that is still dominated by tribal religions is:
			A)	sub-Saharan Africa.
			B)	South America.
			C)	Australia.
			D)	Southeastern Asia.
5			North Africa and the Middle East are dominated by which language family?
			A)	Uralic-Altaic
			B)	Bantu-Bushman-Hottentot
			C)	Semitic-Hamitic
			D)	Indo-European
6			Of the four major world religions, the one that has experienced the most diverse geographical diffusion is:
			A)	Hinduism.
			B)	Buddhism.
			C)	Islam.
			D)	Christianity.
7			Linguistic diffusion is usually the result of:
			A)	common origin.
			B)	distance decay.
			C)	innovation.
			D)	migration and conquest.
8			The spread of Islam from its origins in Arabia outward across North Africa and the Middle East would be classified as what kind of diffusion?
			A)	hierarchical
			B)	relocation
			C)	expansion
			D)	chain
9			Among the following, the most animistic would be:
			A)	Shintoism.
			B)	Buddhism.
			C)	Hinduism.
			D)	Confucianism.
10			A major religion that has essentially disappeared from its area of origin is:
			A)	Judaism.
			B)	Hinduism.
			C)	Islam.
			D)	Buddhism.
11			Within the United States, Baptists are regionally dominant in the:
			A)	New England states.
			B)	Mountain West.
			C)	South.
			D)	Upper Midwest.
12			The main source of Jewish immigrants to the United States in the 19th century was:
			A)	Eastern Europe.
			B)	Southern Europe.
			C)	the Middle East.
			D)	Israel.
13			Religions that tend to be expansionary, carrying their message to new peoples and areas, are termed:
			A)	ethnic.
			B)	universalizing.
			C)	tribal.
			D)	secular.
14			The religious taboo on the consumption of pork is most geographically evident in:
			A)	sub-Saharan Africa.
			B)	Southeast Asia.
			C)	North Africa and the Middle East.
			D)	Western Europe.
15			Which of the following regional–lingua Franca associations is incorrect?
			A)	Western Europe – French
			B)	India – Hindi
			C)	China – Mandarin
			D)	North Africa – Arabic
16			The Upland Southern dialect spread into all of the following areas except:
			A)	the middle Mississippi Valley.
			B)	the lower Great Lakes.
			C)	the Gulf Coast.
			D)	Arkansas and Missouri.
17			A boundary line separating distinct dialectical differences in word choice is termed:
			A)	isodiet.
			B)	isophone.
			C)	isogloss.
			D)	isochrone.
18			Language and religion are important components of which subsystem of culture?
			A)	technological
			B)	ideological
			C)	protological
			D)	sociological
19			The terms hegira, Allah, mosque, and Sunni are most closely associated with which part of the world?
			A)	South Asia
			B)	Eastern Europe
			C)	China and Japan
			D)	the Middle East
20			At present, Buddhism's spatial core is found in:
			A)	China, Tibet, Siberia, Korea.
			B)	Tibet, India, Middle East, Japan.
			C)	Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Mongolia, Japan.
			D)	Northern India, China, Southeast Asia.
21			Of the tens of thousands of different languages spoken by prehistoric humans, about what number still remain?
			A)	50
			B)	600
			C)	2000
			D)	over 6000
22			Of the principal recognized language families of the world, which one contains the languages spoken by about half of the world's people?
			A)	Afro-Asiatic
			B)	Uralic-Altaic
			C)	Sino-Tibetan
			D)	Indo-European
23			The emergence of a particular dialect as the standard language of a society can occur for all of the following reasons except:
			A)	Identified with the speech of the most prestigious, higher ranking, and most powerful members of the larger speech community.
			B)	It is the dialect identified with the capital or center of power at the time of national development.
			C)	It emerges from a conscious decision by speakers of all the major dialects of the language to blend them all together.
			D)	It can be based on norms established and accepted in the theater, universities, public speeches, and literary communication.
24			The study of the evolution of place names, such as the origin of place names ending in chester (from the Latin "castra," meaning camp), is called:
			A)	linguistic geography
			B)	toponymy
			C)	secularism
			D)	sociolinguistics
25			Within North America, which of the following associations between region and dominant religion is incorrect?
			A)	Quebec – Roman Catholic
			B)	Utah – Mormon
			C)	Upper Midwest – Lutheran
			D)	U.S. South – Roman Catholic

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