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Which of the following vernacular house style – culture hearth associations is correct? |
| | A) | gable front – New England |
| | B) | four-over-four – St. Lawrence Valley |
| | C) | classic I – Hudson Valley |
| | D) | central hall – Tidewater |
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Which of the following statements is not true with respect to the Midwest culture region? |
| | A) | It is the least distinctive and most intermixed of the original eastern culture regions. |
| | B) | The interior contains evidence of artifacts carried only by migrants from the Upland and Lowland South. |
| | C) | It is the most Americanized of the culture regions. |
| | D) | It is a conglomeration of inputs from the Upland South, Northeast, and Middle Atlantic Regions. |
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In the United States, folk medicines, cures, and health wisdom are best developed and preserved in which areas? |
| | A) | New England and the St. Lawrence Valley |
| | B) | the Hudson Valley and Chesapeake region |
| | C) | Midwest and rural West |
| | D) | Upland South and Southern Appalachia |
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Which of the following is likely to be the least permanent element of folk culture? |
| | A) | cuisine |
| | B) | folk music |
| | C) | folklore |
| | D) | architecture |
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Which of the following groups would be least likely to participate in the popular culture of late 20th century America? |
| | A) | Mormons of Utah |
| | B) | Native Americans of the West |
| | C) | Midwest Amish |
| | D) | Louisiana Cajuns |
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Among regional variations in the expression of popular culture, which of the following is true (refer to figure 7.30)? |
| | A) | Cigarette smoking and snack nut consumption are high in the same region of the country. |
| | B) | Membership in fraternal orders tends to concentrate in the urban East. |
| | C) | Television viewing of baseball, snack nut consumption, and cigarette smoking all seem to be popular in the North. |
| | D) | Snack nut eating and membership in fraternal orders show a strong spatial association. |
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Although country music had become a national commonplace by the late 1970s, country music radio stations are still most heavily concentrated in which region? |
| | A) | Upland South |
| | B) | Midwest |
| | C) | Lowland South |
| | D) | Mid-Atlantic |
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Which of the following is not true with respect to popular culture? |
| | A) | Its diffusion is marked by the nearly simultaneous adoption over wide areas of both material and nonmaterial elements. |
| | B) | Recognizable culture hearths and migration paths are definable for most popular culture elements. |
| | C) | Many elements of popular culture are oriented toward the automobile. |
| | D) | Both material and nonmaterial elements of popular culture are subject to the same widespread uniformities. |
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The initial unifying agent that preceded the emergence of popular culture was the: |
| | A) | steamboat. |
| | B) | television set. |
| | C) | printing press. |
| | D) | shopping mall. |
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Which of the following is not an effect of popular culture? |
| | A) | Uniformity is substituted for differentiation. |
| | B) | The individual is liberated through exposure to a broader range of available opportunities. |
| | C) | It obliterates locally distinctive lifestyles. |
| | D) | Change in general and the adoption of innovations proceed slowly. |
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Because of its physical isolation from much of early settled America, the folk cultural region that has retained folk artifacts and customs more than any other is the: |
| | A) | Upland South. |
| | B) | Lowland South. |
| | C) | Midwest. |
| | D) | North. |
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The region of American folk culture that exceeded all others in its influence was the: |
| | A) | Midwest. |
| | B) | North. |
| | C) | Upland South. |
| | D) | Mid-Atlantic. |
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The union of Anglo-American folk song, English country dancing, and West African musical patterns best describes the folk song tradition known as: |
| | A) | country. |
| | B) | black folk music. |
| | C) | bluegrass. |
| | D) | jazz. |
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To the folk cultural geographer, the study of fencing as an adjunct of agricultural land use is useful for all of the following except as: |
| | A) | a guide to settlement periods and stages. |
| | B) | evidence of the resources and environmental conditions the settlers found. |
| | C) | an indicator of the folk cultural traditions of farm populations. |
| | D) | an indicator of the barn types prevalent at any time period. |
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All house types of the eastern United States can be traced to which three source regions? |
| | A) | Hudson Valley, Delaware Valley, St. Lawrence Valley |
| | B) | Middle Atlantic, Southern Tidewater, Mississippi Delta |
| | C) | New England, Middle Atlantic, Lower Chesapeake |
| | D) | St. Lawrence Valley, New England, Southern Tidewater |
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Thick-walled, long and single-storied with a flat or low-pitched earth-covered roof best describes which house type? |
| | A) | the grenier house of rural Louisiana |
| | B) | the Spanish adobe house |
| | C) | the four-over-four house of the Delaware Valley |
| | D) | the saltbox house of New England |
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In terms of housing styles, the southern hearths evolved differently from the northern hearths primarily because: |
| | A) | of the lack of traditional building materials. |
| | B) | of differences in climate and ethnic cultural mix. |
| | C) | the North was more affluent than the South. |
| | D) | the South was settled later than the North, and its housing evolved from existing plans. |
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The hearth region that had the most widespread influence on American vernacular architecture was: |
| | A) | Chesapeake Bay. |
| | B) | New England. |
| | C) | Hudson Valley. |
| | D) | Delaware Valley. |
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Which of the following North American culture hearth – original ethnic settler source area associations is not correct? |
| | A) | Hudson Valley – rural southern England |
| | B) | St. Lawrence Valley – northwestern France |
| | C) | Upper Canada – England and Scotland |
| | D) | Delaware Valley – England, Scotland, Sweden, Germany |
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Which of the following is not an aspect of material culture? |
| | A) | folk songs |
| | B) | tools |
| | C) | furniture |
| | D) | musical instruments |
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With respect to the distinction between folk and ethnic as expressed in foods, all of the following are true except: |
| | A) | Until recent times, most societies have been intimately and largely concerned with food production. |
| | B) | In most world regions, ethnic and cultural intermixture is immediately apparent. |
| | C) | Most areas of the world have been occupied by a complex mix of peoples migrating in search of food and carrying food habits and preferences with them in their migrations. |
| | D) | Food habits are not just matters of sustenance but are intimately connected with the totality of culture or custom. |
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Which of the following popular music styles – folk music traditions associations is incorrect? |
| | A) | minstrel show ragtime and blues – jazz |
| | B) | Scottish bagpipe sound and church congregation singing – bluegrass |
| | C) | Southern white ancestral folk music – country music |
| | D) | African-American folk songs of the rural South – urban blues |
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The regional shopping mall, as an expression of popular culture, is distinguished by: |
| | A) | its origin in the mass transit era of the early 20th century. |
| | B) | its complete absence in the southeastern United States. |
| | C) | the fact that Americans spend more of their time in malls than anywhere else except home and work. |
| | D) | their complete replacement of traditional central business districts in older medium-sized and large cities. |
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Ethnic culture can be distinguished from both popular culture and folk culture by virtue of: |
| | A) | its preservation as behavioral norms that set a recognizable national, social, or religious minority group apart from a majority culture. |
| | B) | its being a way of life of the mass population, reducing regional folk and ethnic differences. |
| | C) | its geographical isolation and tradition, which keeps it separate, distinctive, and unchanging. |
| | D) | its being exclusively rural as opposed to urban. |
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Early cultural hearths along the U.S. east coast were established as a result of: |
| | A) | expansion diffusion. |
| | B) | relocation diffusion. |
| | C) | syncretism. |
| | D) | hierarchical diffusion. |
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