Ch 7 Quiz Topics 3.5-3.8

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Cultural Connections Quiz

Test your knowledge about the influence of language and religion on culture and identity with this engaging quiz! Designed to challenge your understanding of how these elements intertwine, each question will guide you through fascinating aspects of cultural preservation and diffusion.

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The role of language in cultural identity
Historical spread of major religions
Influences on globalization
Differences between ethnicity and nationality

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1. Some countries have several official languages because they want to

Make international diplomacy easier

Foster political cooperation with neighboring countries

Make government operate more efficiently

Prepare students to participate in the global economy

Give recognition to different groups within the country

2. Which statement best describes the most common reason groups wish to preserve their traditional languages?

Language is used in religious services, so preserving a language is primarily a religious obligation

Language is used for trade, so preserving language is one way to keep a group economically prosperous

Language preservation passes on a group's history, so preserving a language is the only way to record history accurately

Language change is a politically disruptive force, so preserving a language is one way to keep stability

Language is central to cultural identity, so preserving a language helps preserve a culture

3. The Arabic language spread from its hearth and became one of the major global languages mainly through

Spread of middle Eastern multinational oil corporations

Resisting colonization by European nations and the United States

Worldwide colonization beginning around 600 C.E.

Conquest and its use as a standard religious language

Increased use of communication technology in Arab nations

4. Which general conclusion about the expansion diffusion of the religion does the map most strongly support

It is aided by the presence of a major trade route

It experiences strong fundamentalism at its hearth

It requires mass migrations of people over long distances

It usually moves in an eastward direction

It occurs more in Asia than on other continents

6. Which was the most common religious change amoung Africans as a result of contact with people from Europe and the Middle East

Animism to a universalizing religion

An ethnic religion to animism

Polytheism to an ethnic religion

Monotheism to polytheism

A universalizing religion to an ethnic religion

7. Which type of influence has been most significant in shaping the distribution of religious groups in the United States?

8. Which of the following is NOT a factor that has encouraged globalization?

Technological advances in communication and transportation

Government policies

Increased business costs

The quest for global markets associated with capitalism

An increase in the flows of financial capital

9. Which best describes the main difference between ethnicity and nationality?

Nationality is connected to a state while ethnicity is connected to culture

Nationality is connected to a language while ethnicity is connected to a religion

Nationality is connected to a culture while ethnicity is connected to a state

Nationality is connected to a city while ethnicity is connected to rural areas

Nationality is connected to religion while ethnicity is connected to a urban enclaves

10. Based on its architecture, the worship site in the picture is probably used by people of which religious tradition?

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