Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, 7e (Knox/Marston)
Chapter 5 Cultural Geographies
5.1 Multiple Choice
1) Culture as a “shared set of meanings” is best represented by
A) vegetarianism.
B) devotion to Star Trek.
C) St. Patrick’s Day parade in Tokyo.
D) religious tolerance.
E) all of these examples.
2) Thai Buddhism recognizes that homosexuality and transgender are the result of
A) personal choice.
B) moral uncertainty.
C) karma.
D) genetic variation.
E) cultural priority.
3) To human geographers, which of the following statements is NOT true? Culture
A) is a shared sets of meanings.
B) is lived through the materials and symbolic practices of everyday live.
C) is based on our genetic inheritance.
D) can be transformed by forces internal and external to particular groups.
E) includes values, beliefs, practices, language, identities.
4) The force known as the “Internet of things” connects
A) buyers with sellers.
B) people with products.
C) people with people.
D) objects with objects.
E) people with animals.
5) The United Nations Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
Expressions (CDPGE) was adopted in 2005 to support
A) artists and enjoyers of art and creativity.
B) cultural regions.
C) the protection of world heritage sites.
D) children and the elderly.
E) the development of new and creative norms for beauty.
6) ________ 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) Adhithya Venkatapathy and Jeeva
C) Barack Obama
D) Paul Knox
E) Paul Vidal de la Blache
7) 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.
8) Carl Sauer, H.C. Darby and Paul Vidal de la Blache placed ________ at the heart and center
of their studies of human-environment interactions.
A) cultural landscapes
B) natural landscapes
C) climatological factors
D) language and religion
E) economics and politics
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) 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 practices the same religion.
E) both C and D
13) 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.
14) The greatest concentration of UNESCO World Heritage sites is in
A) Europe.
B) North America.
C) Africa.
D) Asia.
E) South America.
15) Kinship is a form of social organization in which bonds between people are based on
A) blood relations.
B) marriage.
C) adoption.
D) solidarity.
E) blood relations, marriage, adoption, and solidarity.
16) 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
17) A human geographer studying gender issues would most likely study
A) men’s compared 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.
18) The British historical geographer H.C. Darby was best known for
A) reconstructing past landscapes from the Domesday Book.
B) starting the first geography department in England (at Oxford).
C) writing the Domesday Book documenting England’s dialects.
D) interpreting the Old English dialect spoken by William the Conqueror.
E) making the first religious map of Asia.
19) According to your text, the simultaneous existence of “blackophobia” and “blackophilia” in
the USA is explained by ________ in United States’ society.
A) uncertainty in what it means to be white
B) a decline in white privilege
C) the decline of racial segregation
D) the rise in popularity of rap music
20) Which of the following has NOT been used to create social identities and/or power
differences among groups?
A) sexuality
B) racialization
C) gender
D) ethnicity
E) All of these examples have been the basis for identity and power differences.
21) 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) religious practices, family values, historical understandings, and ideas about gender roles.
22) 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.
23) 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.
24) 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) time, cultural practices, natural landscapes, geology and climate
25) French geographer Vidal de la Blache
A) emphasized the importance of place and the physical environment on cultural life.
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) based his approach to cultural geography on the Domesday Book.
26) Cultural nationalism—the belief that a nation shares a common culture—is most likely to be
prominent in
A) a diverse country of immigrants like the United States.
B) an empire like the British or Russian Empires.
C) a region like Scotland, Kurdistan or Quebec with an ethno-linguistically homogenous
population.
D) A former colony like Nigeria or India composed of ethno-linguistic & religious groups.
27) A person’s multiple, overlapping identities—such as race, class, age, or ability—that affect
their power in a community or society is best captured by the concept of
A) intersectionality.
B) kinship.
C) cultural nationalism.
D) actor-network theory.
E) non-representational theory.
28) The gender gap is non-existent in
A) Europe.
B) Southeast Asia.
C) North America.
D) South America.
E) The gender gap exists in all regions of the world.
29) Gender is most effectively understood in terms of
A) biology and genetics.
B) society and culture.
C) a socially constructed performance.
D) male and female.
30) 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.
31) 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.
32) Which of the following is the least likely example of kinship?
A) “sisters” in a sorority
B) firefighters in the same fire department
C) cousins in the same family
D) neighbors in the same village
E) citizens of the same country
33) Advantages that white people have beyond what is commonly experienced by people of
color—such as the ability to go most anywhere without fear of being followed or harassed—is
known as
A) white privilege.
B) white supremacy.
C) a right of passage.
D) intersectionality.
E) discrimination.
34) The concept of transgender and non-conformity to conventional notions of male and female
gender is based on a person’s
A) self-identity.
B) biology.
C) heredity.
D) ethnicity.
E) self-identity and heredity.
35) 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
36) The majority ethnic group in China is the
A) Han.
B) Miao.
C) Hmong.
D) Uyghur.
E) Dong.
37) Relationships that express solidarity and connection, that assert closeness, and that serve as a
basis for identity are captured in the concept of
A) kinship.
B) intersectionality.
C) ethnicity.
D) genre de vie.
E) tribe.
38) Which of the following is NOT a geographic factor that allows transgendered people to live
fluidly and with little harassment in Thai society?
A) Technological capacity regarding sex-change operations is advanced.
B) Many children and adults know a transgender person in school or their village.
C) Dominant religious belief emphasizes acceptance and understanding.
D) The difference between males and females in Thailand is smaller than in most countries.
E) Women are highly revered in Thai society.
39) In studying culture, geographers and anthropologists focus most of their attention on
A) material culture.
B) opera, ballet, and literature.
C) cultural ties to place.
D) folk traditions and practices.
E) symbolic and spiritual manifestations.