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Quiz on Culture
No. of Questions= 10
Grade Standards: below 60% F, 60-70 D, 70-80 C, 80-90 B, 90-100 A.

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1.  Which is NOT a component of culture?
     
a) Architecture
b) Etiquette
c) Religion
d) Genetics
e) none of the above.
2.  When does imprinting start on a human being?
     
a) When we go to school for the first time.
b) When we are born.
c) When we get married.
d) When we start making sounds as babies.
e) none of the above.
3.  Which would be considered an artifact of a culture?
     
a) Language
b) Social Structure
c) Cultural Bag
d) Pottery
e) none of the above.
4.  Ethnocentrism:
     
a) is looking only through your perspective on the world or other cultures.
b) has to do with the books written by elders about their own cultures.
c) tells all of the tales of legend that are collected from a culture.
d) is the collection of fighting styles and meditation practices of a culture.
e) is none of the above.
5.  Preconceived notions about a culture are known as:
     
a) Cultural Baggage
b) Social Prejudices
c) Cultural Naivity
d) Basic Thought
e) none of the above.
6.  Which of the following is NOT a cultural hearth?
     
a) Mesopotamia
b) Andean America
c) Wei-Huang Valley
d) West Africa
e) None of the above.
7.  Which of the following is NOT an example of Cultural Landscape?
     
a) Oceans
b) Buildings
c) Gardens and Parks
d) The Pyramids at Giza
e) none of the above.
8.  What are the four aspects of a cultural region?
     
a) The Domain, Artifacts, Region, and the People
b) The Outer Core, Crust, Mantle, and the Inner Core
c) The Core, Domain, Sphere, and the Outliers
d) The Heart, Edge, Circle, and the Laterals
e) all of the above.
9.  Cultural Diffusion:
     
a) concerns the spread of culture and the factors that account for it such as migration, communication, and trade.
b) occurs when large groups of people move from one place to another.
c) is a mechanism for cultural change.
d) is identified by spreading through three major methods, direct diffusion, forced diffusion, and indirect diffusion.
e) all of the above.
10.  Why is Cultural Imperialism different than other cultural influences?
     
a) It teaches poeple to be extremely docile and peaceful to other cultures.
b) It allows for a large meeting of many cultures to mingle.
c) The leaders of the government it is instilled in are normally white.
d) It uses military or economic force to guarantee the transition.
e) none of the above.



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Quiz by Jason Hester, April 3, 2009