Ch. 6 Quiz Topics 3.1-3.4

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Explore American Culture: A Quiz

Test your knowledge about cultural concepts, artifacts, and the dynamics of traditional and popular cultures in America with this engaging quiz. Enhance your understanding of cultural complexities and make connections across various themes.

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1. According to the cultural complex described in the diagram, auto ownership provides transportation but also

Represents one American cultural traits, depending on the values of the auto's owner

Provides greater likelihood that its owner will attain American values such as wealth

Helps identify the owner's cultural landscape, region, realm, and level of freedom

Comes about a as a result of possession of a particular American trait, such as wealth

Represents a set of American cultural traits, such as self-reliance and independence

2. Which of the following best demonstrates the concept of cultural hearth

The places in the world where material and nonmaterial traits emerged

An area within a city where people share a common culture distinct from the surrounding culture

The buildings, roads, and other elements built by humans

Latin America, which consists of several distinct but related cultures

The Middle East, where many culture share the religion of Islam

3. The architecture style of Saint Basil Eastern Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, is most clearly an example of the city's cultural

Landscape

Barriers

4. A family that immigrates from China to the United States and chooses to live in an ethnic enclave is probably hoping to

Find a buffer against discrimination while they seek new opporrunities

Assimilate their family into american culture as quickly as possible

Separate itself from its Chinese culture rapidly and completely

Find more religious and language diversity than in most communities

Expose their children to people of many other cultures

5. Which of the following best describes an artifact?

The material culture consisting of tangible things, such as food and clothing

The territory in which people reside including valleys and rivers

The interaction between different groups including trading and negotiating

A way in which people organize their society such as through families and government

6. Amish residents on Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who are descendants of immigrants from Switzerland in the 1700s, live without the benefits of electricity. This choice is an example of

An adherence to traditional culture

An adaptation of popular culture

A longstanding indigenous culture

Acclimation to their new environment

A dominant national identity

7. Which pattern is most typical of folk/traditional cultures than other types of culture?

Emphasizing the value of customs

Promoting a high level of religious diversity

Establishing flexible gender roles

Welcoming in new practices from other cultures

Taking steps to transform rural areas into urban areas

8. One effect of the spread of popular culture through globalization is that

Cultural realms have become more diverse

The primary impact has been to change American culture

Traditional cultural values have spread to developing countries

Several traits have become part of the worldwide culture

Less-developed countries have adopted stricter gender roles

9. Which of the following is the BEST example of global stimulus diffusion?

McDonald's in India serving Maharajah Macs

Rock and Roll music in the U.S.

Islam spreading through the Arabian peninsula

Walmart opening in metropolitan urban cores

10. Which is an example of hierachical diffusion?

Hip-hop music spreading from the inner cities to the suburbs throughout the United States

Influenza spreading throughout South America

Buddhist ideology spreading throughout the Indian subcontinent

Monks spreading Christianity throughout Europe

The spread of ideas on the world wide web

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