Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, 7e (Knox/Marston)
Chapter 6 Language, Communication, and Belief
6.1 Multiple Choice
1) 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.
2) According to your textbook, the fastest growing religion in the U.S. is
A) Islam.
B) Norse Mythology.
C) Orthodox Christianity.
D) Animism.
E) Hinduism.
3) If one were in Mecca during the hajj, one is least likely to encounter a pilgrim from
A) China.
B) Pakistan.
C) Indonesia.
D) Egypt.
E) Turkey.
4) Many of the sites that are sacred for India’s Hindus are located
A) near rivers.
B) in the southern part of the country.
C) on the border with Bangladesh.
D) near the centers of major cities.
E) in the highlands of Tibet.
5) Sacred spaces are sacred because
A) of a miracle that occurred there.
B) God makes it so.
C) people make them so.
D) houses of worship (e.g., temples, mosques, churches, monasteries) are located there.
E) religious figures have died there.
6) The hajj is among the world’s very largest
A) annual pilgrimages.
B) sacred spaces.
C) sacred sites.
D) mosques.
E) religious conflicts.
7) To participate in the hajj is to be a Muslim and participate in commemorative and symbolic
acts in
A) Mecca.
B) Jerusalem
C) Rome.
D) the Taj Mahal.
E) Constantinople.
8) Muslims believe that Muhammad had a mystical experience in which he visited ________
and, from there, heaven. As a consequence, this city has been a holy city of Islam since A.D.
638, just a few years after Muhammad’s death.
A) Jerusalem
B) Istanbul
C) Cairo
D) Baghdad
E) Damascus
9) Which of the following does (or did) NOT occupy the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, one of the
world’s most contested sacred sites?
A) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
B) The Dome of the Rock
C) The Al-Aqsa Mosque
D) The First Jewish Temple
E) The Wailing Wall
10) According to your text, a cult is defined by
A) how weird or marginal it is perceived compared to dominant religions.
B) where it originated.
C) who established the belief system.
D) the characteristics of its gods.
E) whether or not its adherents go to heaven.
11) The hajj is the once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage for practitioners of
A) Hinduism.
B) Judaism.
C) Islam.
D) Jainism.
E) Buddhism.
12) Islam requires Muslims to make a once-in– a-lifetime pilgrimage to
A) Amman, Jordan.
B) Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
C) Marakesh, Morocco.
D) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
E) Damascus, Syria.
13) Mecca, Jerusalem, the Ganges and Lourdes are among the world’s most important
A) religious hearths of monotheism.
B) pilgrimage sites.
C) districts, nodes and landmarks.
D) landscapes of despair.
E) landscapes-as–text.
14) For which of the following groups do the Holy Lands of Palestine/Israel not have
significance?
A) Hindu nationalists
B) Greek Orthodox
C) Roman Catholics
D) Christian Zionists
E) Sunni Muslims
15) The most visited sacred site in Europe is in
A) France.
B) Spain.
C) Russia.
D) Finland.
E) Ireland.
16) Fashion veiling is most commonly practiced by
A) young Muslim women.
B) non-Muslim women.
C) secular Muslims.
D) traditional women of the Arabian peninsula.
E) New York and London hipsters.
17) Diasporas have contributed especially to the spread of ________ around the world.
A) religion
B) disease
C) dialects
D) conflict
E) trade
18) The world’s four major world religions
A) originated from Old World agricultural and urban hearth areas.
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.
19) Which of the following does NOT share religious and regional roots with the others?
A) Islam
B) Buddhism
C) Sikhism
D) Hinduism
E) Both Sikhism and Hinduism
20) 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, play and
college football.
21) 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.
22) Before the Columbian 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.
23) Trolls, elves, giants, gods of war and goddesses of beauty are associated with
A) Norse mythology and historic belief systems of Scandinavia.
B) cargo cults and ritualistic practices on the Melanesian Islands.
C) ritualistic practices of established churches of the United Kingdom.
D) the sports-based cults of rural North America.
E) Roman Catholic practices abolished after the Protestant Reformation.
24) 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.
25) Before attaining enlightenment and becoming the Buddha, Prince Gautama was a(n)
A) Hindu.
B) Muslim.
C) Christian.
D) Sikh.
E) animist.
26) Your textbook and this exam use the ________ alphabet.
A) Latin
B) Arabic
C) English
D) Greek
E) German
27) To be in the same family, languages must share the same
A) vocabulary.
B) alphabet (or script).
C) origins.
D) grammar.
E) dialect.
28) The English spoken in Minnesota 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.
29) The use of language distinctive of a particular group is known as a(n)
A) dialect.
B) idiom.
C) diaspora.
D) drawl.
E) colloquialism.
30) Currently, around the world, there are nearly ________ living languages.
A) 7
B) 70
C) 700
D) 7,000
E) 70,000
31) 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.
32) The effort to protect regional and national cultures from Americanization and the
homogenizing effects of globalization is known as
A) cultural nationalism.
B) anti-Americanism.
C) cultural imperialism.
D) traditional nationalism.
E) religious fundamentalism.
33) The pilgrimage known as the hajj is
A) among the primary obligations of Muslims.
B) a rite of passage for Muslims.
C) a cultural trait of Islamic countries.
D) a cultural trait of Arabs.
E) among the five prayers of Islam.
34) The most widespread and effective anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and generally anti-core
movement to challenge the modernizing and secularizing forces of globalization has been
A) Islamism.
B) postmodernism.
C) jihad.
D) cultural nationalism.
E) postcolonialism.
35) Islamism 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.
36) 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) Christian is to Christianity and Hindu is to Hindi.
37) Which of the following is numerically small because it does not seek converts?
A) Judaism
B) Protestantism
C) Islam
D) Roman Catholicism
38) Jerusalem is NOT a sacred city to which of the following groups?
A) Hindus
B) Jews
C) Christians
D) Muslims
E) Roman Catholics
39) Who of the following are not part of the Abrahamic tradition?
A) Hindus
B) Christians
C) the Baha’i
D) Muslims
E) the Druze
40) 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) have been the most common reason for conversion to Christianity.
D) refer solely to the emigration of people from the region of Palestine.
41) On world maps of religion like the one in our text, Central and South America are
represented as Roman Catholic and
A) Muslim.
B) Protestant.
C) Eastern Orthodox.
D) Buddhist.
E) local religions.
42) 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.
43) Buddhism originated in
A) Jordan.
B) Saudi Arabia.
C) Thailand.
D) Japan.
E) India.
44) After four centuries of suppressing regional languages and dialects, the ________
government is now supporting and promoting them as national treasures and cultural
preservation.
A) French
B) U.S.
C) Chinese
D) Indian
E) Norwegian
45) 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
46) The remarkable thing about Nicaraguan Sign Language is that it was developed by a group
of Nicaraguan
A) deaf children.
B) politicians.
C) math teachers.
D) illiterate women.
E) farmers and peasants.
47) Which of the following is a good example of a fusion language?
A) Garifuna spoken in New York City
B) Dothraki and High Valyrian spoken on Game of Thrones
C) Sign language spoken in Nicaragua
D) the 87 dialects of the Iranian language
E) German
48) Carib and Arawak are indigenous languages of
A) the Americas.
B) Europe.
C) West Africa.
D) South Asia.
E) Iran.
49) According to linguistic analysis, and as shown on a language tree, English is most closely
related to and evolved from
A) German.
B) Latin.
C) Norwegian.
D) Iranian.
E) French.
50) Considering the world’s currently spoken, standard languages, only the people of ________
would be able to communicate intelligibly with actual, historic Vikings.
A) Iceland.
B) Norway.
C) Russia.
D) Canada.
E) Lapland.
51) The English words fog, bug, ugly, hell, awe and trust, entered the English language from
A) Old Norse, the language of the Vikings.
B) Normand, the regional language of western France.
C) Catalan, the language of Catalonia in northeastern Spain.
D) Zazaki, a language of the Kurds.
E) Dravidian, the language family dominant in southern India.
52) The English words hear, give, black, worm, fire, ashes, spitting, mother and man
A) are among the world’s oldest and most durable words.
B) represent words that are truly American English words.
C) became official after starting out as slang words.
D) linguistically drifted to the United Kingdom from the European mainland.
E) all used to mean the same thing.
53) Spanish and French
A) emerged from Arabic.
B) are mutually intelligible: if you speak one you can understand the other.
C) are related to Hindi, Farsi, Greek and other Indo-European languages.
D) used to be spoken across all of Europe.
54) 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
55) 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
56) Cultural nationalism
A) has been on the wane over the last two decades as the world has turned more towards
democracy.
B) is exemplified by France’s efforts to protect its language from “Americanization.”
C) is practiced primarily in the Islamic world.
D) occurs when governments actively try to export their culture to other countries with the
specific aim of changing the cultures of those countries.
57) The Qur’an
A) was written after most of the Old Testament was written, but before the New Testament.
B) does not recognize Jesus as a prophet.
C) is used by the Shi’i, but not by Sunnis.
D) was written my Muhammad.
E) is considered by Muslims to be the word of God, delivered through Muhammad.
58) The closer that languages are to each other on a language tree, the more likely they are to be
A) mutually intelligible.
B) proto-languages.
C) fusion languages
D) lingua francas.
E) small languages.
59) Islamism
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.
60) 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.