APHG Chapter Seven Test-Version A
1) Which statement about universalizing religions is correct?
a) A universalizing religion is one into which people are born.
b) A universalizing religion is usually easy to join.
c) A universalizing religion seeks converts from other religions.
d) A and B only.
e) B and C only.
2) Which of the following religions is currently the most important religion in its area of origin?
a) Buddhism.
b) Christianity.
c) Hinduism.
d) Islam.
e) all of the above.
3) Which pair of religions are both considered hierarchical religions?
a) Roman Catholicism and Mormonism.
b) Mormonism and Southern Baptist.
c) Mormonism and Islam.
d) Roman Catholicism and Islam.
e) Southern Baptist and Islam.
4) Roman Catholics in North America are largely concentrated in
a) Quebec and the Northeastern USA.
b) Mexico.
c) Mexico, Southwestern USA, and West Coast USA.
d) Quebec and the Northeastern USA, Mexico, and West Coast USA.
e) All of the above.
5) Europe’s Roman Catholic population is largely concentrated in the southern part of the continent. This is most likely due to
a) its proximity to Rome.
b) Protestants finding refuge in the north‟s high mountains.
c) the influence of the Huegenots on the south.
d) Northern European areas that were never converted to Roman Catholicism.
e) all of the above.
6) Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was born in
a) China.
b) Nepal.
c) Thailand.
d) Sri Lanka.
e) India.
7) Which of the following can be considered the “parent” religion to Buddhism?
a) Hinduism.
b) Sikhism.
c) Islam.
d) Christianity.
e) Shintoism.
8) How are Buddhism and Hinduism similar?
a) Both religions believe in a judgment day and rewards in heaven.
b) Both religions believe in magic and divination.
c) Both religions believe in a rigid class system (caste system).
d) Both religions believe in ahimsa, the principle of non-violence.
e) All of the above.
9) How are Buddhism and Hinduism different?
a) Buddhists practice meditation; Hindus reject the practice of meditation.
b) Hindus have a rigid class system (castes or varnas); Buddhists reject the caste system.
c) Hindus believe in reincarnation; Buddhists believe in a heaven.
d) Buddhists believe in ahimsa (non-violence), while Hindus do not believe in non-violence.
e) Buddhists are polytheists; Hindus are monotheists.
10) Which statement best describes the Muslim population of the world?
a) The largest number of Muslims is in South Asia and Southeast Asia.
b) The largest number of Muslims is in the Middle East and North Africa.
c) The Muslim population is equally divided between the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
d) The largest number of Muslims is in Southwest Asia and East Africa.
e) The largest number of Muslims is in West Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
11) Numerically speaking, which of the following Christian groups is the largest?
a) Southern Baptist.
b) Eastern Orthodox.
c) Roman Catholic.
d) Anglican/Episcopalian.
e) Lutheran.
12) The Shi‟ite Muslim population is concentrated in
a) Iran and part of Iraq.
b) Pakistan and Afghanistan.
c) Malaysia and part of Indonesia.
d) India and Bangladesh.
e) Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
13) Islam diffused across the Eastern Hemisphere through
a) war.
b) trade.
c) missionaries.
d) migration.
e) all of the above.
14) Which of the following would be considered a sacred site for Christians?
a) Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
b) The Kaaba in Makkah.
c) The Western Wall in Jerusalem.
d) The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
e) Potala Palace in Lhasa.
15) Religiously, Turkey differs from Saudi Arabia in which of the following ways?
a) Turkey is Christian; Saudi Arabia is Muslim.
b) Turkey is a theocracy; Saudi Arabia is a monarchy.
c) Turkey practices a more strict form of Shari‟a than Saudi Arabia.
d) Turkey is more Westernized and secular than Saudi Arabia.
e) Turkish Muslims are Shi‟ite, while Saudi Muslims are Sunni.
16) In Europe, many Catholics are less likely to attend church or be active in their religious community. This is due to the rise of
a) Protestantism.
b) Shamanism.
c) Cultural Indifference.
d) Atheism.
e) Secularism.
17) Ethnic religions
a) are made up of homogeneous populations.
b) do not seek converts.
c) are monotheistic.
d) all of the above.
e) A and B only.
18) Which pair are both considered ethnic religions?
a) Judaism and Christianity.
b) Christianity and Islam.
c) Islam and Hinduism.
d) Hinduism and Judaism.
e) Islam and Judaism.
19) Numerically speaking, which of the following religions has the smallest number of adherents?
a) Judaism.
b) Christianity.
c) Islam.
d) Hinduism.
e) Buddhism.
20) Which statement best describes the distribution of the Jewish population in the world?
a) Nearly 90% of all Jews in the world live in Israel.
b) Most Jews live in Russia and Eastern Europe.
c) About half of all Jews live in Israel, the rest are concentrated in urban areas of Europe and North America.
d) About half of all Jews live in European cities, the rest live in Israel.
e) Only one-quarter of all Jews live in Israel, the rest are concentrated in North America.
21) Religions influence on the cultural landscape can be seen in all following ways except
a) places of worship.
b) burial grounds.
c) shrines.
d) commercial districts.
e) sacred sites.
22) The largest concentration of Protestants in the world is in
a) Eastern Europe.
b) North America.
c) Latin America.
d) Australia and New Zealand.
e) Northern Europe.
23) Which country would be a good example of a theocracy?
a) Iran.
b) Iraq.
c) India.
d) Japan.
e) Italy
24) Which is an example of an intrafaith (boundary) conflict?
a) Israel—Palestine
b) Former Yugoslavia
c) Northern Ireland
d) Nigeria
e) United States and Canada
25) The revolution that destroyed the old order in Ethiopia created a new state on the African map called ______, dominantly Muslim and culturally distinct from the old empire of which it had been a part.
a) Eritrea
b) Botswana
c) Sudan
d) Uganda
e) Chad
26) In the former Yugoslavia, Albanians are the dominate ethnic group in ______
a) Macedonia.
b) Slovenia.
c) Greece
d) Croatia.
e) Kosovo.
27) Which is not a feature of Islamic sacred architecture?
a) Minarets
b) adoption of Roman models of design
c) Frescoes depicting the life of the prophet
d) geometric and calligraphic ornamentation
e) None of the above
28) The vote to partition Palestine was taken by
a) Israel.
b) the United Nations.
c) Britain.
d) the Ottoman Empire.
e) NATO
29) Northern Ireland, scene of Catholic-Protestant conflict, was partitioned by
a) the United Nations.
b) The EU
c) mutual agreement of the two conflicting parties.
d) the Catholic Church through a Papal Nuncio.
e) Britain.
30) Rabbi Kahane and his followers are examples of
a) Christian converts.
b) peace activists.
c) Jewish extremists.
d) followers of the peaceful, syncretic Bahai faith.
e) Jewish fundamentalists
31) The former Soviet Union adopted ______as its official religious policy.
a) Orthodox Christianity
b) secular separation of church and state
c) atheism
d) official state Protestant church
e) Catholicism
32) The Yellow River is to Chinese Philosophy as the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are to ______
a) Christianity.
b) Hinduism.
c) Confucianism.
d) Buddhism.
e) Taoism
33) Hinduism arose in the ______River valley.
a) Indus
b) Ganges
c) Brahmaputra
d) Krishna
e) Nile
34) The Indonesian island of Bali became a refuge for Hindu holy men, nobles and intellectuals during the sixteenth century because
a) volcanic eruptions drove them out of neighboring islands.
b) droughts and famines swept India.
c) Buddhism engulfed neighboring Sumatra.
d) Islam engulfed neighboring Java.
e) All of the above
35) Geomancers, those who know the desires of the spirits of ancestors, dragons and tigers occupying the natural world, are associated with
a) karma.
b) feng-shui.
c) Lamaism.
d) monotheism.
e) animism
36) The Jews of Central Europe are known as
a) Ashkenazim.
b) Sephardim.
c) Zionists.
d) Orthodox.
e) Reformed
37) The ideology of Zionism has as its goal
a) the merger of Judaism with other religions.
b) the merger of the three modern divisions of Judaism.
c) a homeland for the Jewish people.
d) the elimination of the Orthodox division within the faith.
e) B and C
38) The youngest major religion is
a) Hinduism.
b) Judaism.
c) Islam.
d) Christianity.
e) Sikhism
39) Shamanism is a traditional religion, and an intimate part of local culture and society. But not all traditional religions are shamanist. In which of the following regions have both Christianity and Islam failed to convert most of the people practicing a traditional religion?
a) Southwest Asia
b) Asia
c) Africa
d) South America
e) Southeast Asia
40) Jerusalem is to Christians as ______is to Hindus.
a) Mumbai
b) Delhi
c) Varanasi
d) Tokyo
e) Bangalore
Previously tested materials
41) The growth in the size of the audience of Phish in its college band days was a result of
a) national television exposure.
b) contagious diffusion.
c) hierarchical diffusion.
d) promotion by beer companies.
e) relocation diffusion
42) The use of the horse and buggy by the Amish in the US is an example of
a) folk culture
b) habit
c) technological innovation
d) popular culture
e) custom
43) English is part of which language group?
a) Germanic
b) North Germanic
c) West Germanic
d) Indo-European
e) Romance
44) The crucial element in language is
a) Vocabulary.
b) Grammar.
c) Alphabet.
d) Syntax
e) Vocalization.
45) Which type of map would have the largest scale?
a) world map
b) continent map
c) country map
d) regional map
e) city map
46) The azimuthal map best reflects what class of map projection?
a) conic
b) cylindrical
c) oval
d) planar
e) Mercator
47) The largest internal migration in history is
a) the migration of Europeans to North America from 1600 to 1900.
b) the migration of Mexican workers to maquiladora factory towns from 1980 to present.
c) the migration of Muslims from India to Pakistan after World War II.
d) the migration of Native Americans to reservations in the late 1800s.
e) the rural to urban migration in China from 1970 to present.
48) The difference between a migrant and a refugee is
a) migrants seek to move permanently; refugees usually seek to return to their home.
b) migrants move to improve their lives; refugees move as a result of catastrophic events in their homeland.
c) migrants carefully plan their move; refugees have to move on a moment’s notice.
d) migrants are usually young and single; refugees are people of all ages.
e) all of the above.
49) Historically, the world’s population grew
a) quickly until about 1000 CE, before declining between 1800 CE and the present
b) quickly until about 1800 CE, before growing quickly between 1000 CE and the present
c) slowly until about 1000 CE, before growing quickly between 1000 CE and the present
d) slowly until about 1800 CE, before growing quickly between 1800 CE and the present
e) very steadily from 1000 CE until the present
50) According to Thomas Malthus, natural “checks” on a population include all of the following except
a) agricultural advancements
b) disease
c) famine
d) natural disasters
e) war