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Which of the following serves as an official language of more countries than any other? |
| | A) | French |
| | B) | English |
| | C) | Arabic |
| | D) | Spanish |
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Which of the following would not qualify as a Germanic language? |
| | A) | Welsh |
| | B) | English |
| | C) | Dutch |
| | D) | Norwegian |
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Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi are languages common to: |
| | A) | Afghanistan and Tibet. |
| | B) | Iraq and Iran. |
| | C) | India and Pakistan. |
| | D) | Indonesia and the Philippines. |
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The part of the world that is still dominated by tribal religions is: |
| | A) | sub-Saharan Africa. |
| | B) | South America. |
| | C) | Australia. |
| | D) | Southeastern Asia. |
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North Africa and the Middle East are dominated by which language family? |
| | A) | Uralic-Altaic |
| | B) | Bantu-Bushman-Hottentot |
| | C) | Semitic-Hamitic |
| | D) | Indo-European |
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Of the four major world religions, the one that has experienced the most diverse geographical diffusion is: |
| | A) | Hinduism. |
| | B) | Buddhism. |
| | C) | Islam. |
| | D) | Christianity. |
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Linguistic diffusion is usually the result of: |
| | A) | common origin. |
| | B) | distance decay. |
| | C) | innovation. |
| | D) | migration and conquest. |
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The spread of Islam from its origins in Arabia outward across North Africa and the Middle East would be classified as what kind of diffusion: |
| | A) | hierarchical |
| | B) | relocation |
| | C) | expansion |
| | D) | chain |
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Among the following, the most animistic would be: |
| | A) | Shintoism. |
| | B) | Buddhism. |
| | C) | Hinduism. |
| | D) | Confucianism. |
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A major religion that has essentially disappeared from its area of origin is: |
| | A) | Judaism. |
| | B) | Hinduism. |
| | C) | Islam. |
| | D) | Buddhism. |
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Within the United States, Baptists are regionally dominant in the: |
| | A) | New England states. |
| | B) | Mountain West. |
| | C) | South. |
| | D) | Upper Midwest. |
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The main source of Jewish immigrants to the United States in the 19th century was: |
| | A) | Eastern Europe. |
| | B) | Southern Europe. |
| | C) | the Middle East. |
| | D) | Israel. |
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Religions that tend to be expansionary, carrying their message to new peoples and areas, are termed: |
| | A) | ethnic. |
| | B) | universalizing. |
| | C) | tribal. |
| | D) | secular. |
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The religious taboo on the consumption of pork is most geographically evident in: |
| | A) | sub-Saharan Africa. |
| | B) | Southeast Asia. |
| | C) | North Africa and the Middle East. |
| | D) | Western Europe. |
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Which of the following regional–lingua Franca associations is incorrect? |
| | A) | Western Europe – French |
| | B) | India – Hindi |
| | C) | China – Mandarin |
| | D) | North Africa – Arabic |
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The Upland Southern dialect spread into all of the following areas except: |
| | A) | the middle Mississippi Valley. |
| | B) | the lower Great Lakes. |
| | C) | the Gulf Coast. |
| | D) | Arkansas and Missouri. |
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A boundary line separating distinct dialectical differences in word choice is termed: |
| | A) | isodiet. |
| | B) | isophone. |
| | C) | isogloss. |
| | D) | isochrone. |
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Language and religion are important components of which subsystem of culture? |
| | A) | technological |
| | B) | ideological |
| | C) | protological |
| | D) | sociological |
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The terms hegira, Allah, mosque, and Sunni are most closely associated with which part of the world: |
| | A) | South Asia |
| | B) | Eastern Europe |
| | C) | China and Japan |
| | D) | the Middle East |
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At present, Buddhism's spatial core is found in: |
| | A) | China, Tibet, Siberia, Korea. |
| | B) | Tibet, India, Middle East, Japan. |
| | C) | Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Mongolia, Japan. |
| | D) | Northern India, China, Southeast Asia. |
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Of the tens of thousands of different languages spoken by prehistoric humans, about what number still remain? |
| | A) | 50 |
| | B) | 600 |
| | C) | 2000 |
| | D) | over 6000 |
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Of the principal recognized language families of the world, which one contains the languages spoken by about half of the world's people? |
| | A) | Afro-Asiatic |
| | B) | Uralic-Altaic |
| | C) | Sino-Tibetan |
| | D) | Indo-European |
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The emergence of a particular dialect as the standard language of a society can occur for all of the following reasons except: |
| | A) | Identified with the speech of the most prestigious, higher ranking, and most powerful members of the larger speech community. |
| | B) | It is the dialect identified with the capital or center of power at the time of national development. |
| | C) | It emerges from a conscious decision by speakers of all the major dialects of the language to blend them all together. |
| | D) | It can be based on norms established and accepted in the theater, universities, public speeches, and literary communication. |
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| 24 | |
The study of the evolution of place names, such as the origin of place names ending in chester (from the Latin "castra," meaning camp), is called: |
| | A) | linguistic geography |
| | B) | toponymy |
| | C) | secularism |
| | D) | sociolinguistics |
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Within North America, which of the following associations between region and dominant religion is incorrect? |
| | A) | Quebec – Roman Catholic |
| | B) | Utah – Mormon |
| | C) | Upper Midwest – Lutheran |
| | D) | U.S. South – Roman Catholic |
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