Multiple Choice Practice for Cultural Patterns and Processes

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Facts about the test: The AP Human Geography exam has 60 multiple choice questions and you will be given 1 hour to complete the section. That means it should take you around 1 minute per question.

*The following questions were not written by College Board and, although they cover information outlined in the AP Human Geography Course and Exam Description, the formatting on the exam may be different.

1. "A particular group's material characteristics, behavioral patterns, beliefs, social norms, and attitudes that are shared and transmitted" is the definition of _____.

A. Culture

B. Material Culture

C. Ethnicity

D. Folk Culture

2. Which of the following types of cultures is best preserved by oral, rather than written, traditions?

A. Linguistic Culture

B. Non-Material Culture

C. Popular Culture

D. Folk Culture

3.  Which of the following is a Cultural Centripetal Force?

A. Speaking French in Belgium

B. Practicing Islam in India

C. The Language, Portuguese, in São Paulo

D. All people having jobs in the West Virginia mining industry

4. Which of the following is the best example of an ethnicity?

A. Caucasian

B. Hispanic Catholic

C. Asian

D. American

5. Which of the following is an example of reverse hierarchical diffusion?

A. Fashion Trends

B. Hip-Hop Music

C. TikTok Dances

D. Spread of COVID-19

6. When a hamburger from the USA is eaten in India, it is usually eaten with a meat other than beef because it is taboo to eat that in Hindu culture since the Cow is sacred. What type of diffusion is this?

A. Relocation

B. Expansion

C. Stimulus

D. Hierarchical

7. What is the most common lingua franca in the world?

A. Russian

B. Arabic

C. Urdu

D. English

8. The language of French used in Canada is slightly different from the one used in France. When the French initially colonized the Americas, they were not the only European power here and the many powers spoke different languages. This is an example of ______.

A. Cultural Divergence

B. Cultural Convergence

C. Relocation Diffusion

D. Stimulus Diffusion

9. Globalization is often cited as a cause of diffusion for _____.

A. Folk Culture

B. Popular Culture

C. Material Culture

D. Non-Material Culture

10. What is the largest ethnic + what is the largest universalizing religion in the world, respectively?

A. Hinduism-Christianity

B. Christianity-Hinduism

C. Christianity-Buddhism

D. Buddhism-Christianity

11. Which of the following conflicts was started/is currently fueled because of religion?

A. Northern Irish-Irish

B. Pakistan-India

C. Palestine-Israel

D. All of the Above

12. As referenced in the Language Tree, what is the largest language family?

A. Altaic

B. West Germanic

C. Indo-European

D. Niger-Congo

13. Using pop to describe a soda or a coke is an example of _____. 

A. Creolization

B. Dialects

C. Pidgin Languages

D. Syncretism

14. Which of the following religions is the best example of Cultural Syncretism?

A. Shintoism

B. Christianity

C. Islam

D. Sikhism

15. From the point of view of an American citizen, I categorize the world into familiar and unfamiliar cultures, and often 'other' unfamiliar ones. What process is this point of view experiencing?

A. Acculturation

B. Assimilation

C. Globalization

D. Ethnocentrism

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