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Unit Exam: Chapter 4
Folk and Popular Culture
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) The geographer Vidal de la Blache regarded
food supply as
A) the folk custom most closely tied to a
particular climate.
B) less subject to modification than the
clothing and weapons.
C) the best available example of a folk
custom.
D) all of the above
2) The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent
that it becomes characteristic of a group of
people is a
A) habit.
B) taboo.
C) popular culture.
D) custom.
E) character trait.
3) A repetitive act performed by an individual is
known as a
A) popular culture.
B) character trait.
C) custom.
D) habit.
E) taboo.
4) In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is
typical of
A) large heterogeneous groups.
B) groups living in isolated rural areas.
C) groups of specialists.
D) groups that have little interaction with
other groups.
E) small homogeneous groups.
5) Jeans provide a good example of material
culture that is adopted by a number of
different societies. This refers to what type of
material culture?
A) Punk culture
B) Folk culture
C) Popular culture
D) Western culture
6) In contrast to popular culture, folk cultures
are more likely to vary
A) from time to time at a given place.
B) with rapid change.
C) neither from place to place nor from
time to time.
D) both from place to place and from time
to time.
E) from place to place at a given time.
7) In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is
more likely to vary
A) from place to place at a given time.
B) from time to time at a given place.
C) neither from place to place nor from
time to time.
D) both from place to place and from time
to time.
8) Folk cultures are spread primarily by
A) contagious diffusion.
B) epidemic diffusion.
C) hierarchical diffusion.
D) stimulus diffusion.
E) relocation diffusion.
9) The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish
in the United States is an example of
A) taboo.
B) technological innovation.
C) habit.
D) folk culture.
E) popular culture.
10) The main effect of modern communications
on social customs has been to
A) preserve folk cultures, by increasing
awareness of their uniqueness.
B) slow the rate of change.
C) have little effect on the diffusion of
social customs.
D) stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures
around the world.
E) increase the similarity of social c
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