Question 1

-Catholics in the United States are concentrated mainly in the northeast and southwest.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America?

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A)   having a Roman Catholic majority
B)   having a Protestant majority
C)   location relative to the Equator
D)   Ethnic religions make up the majority in one but not the other.
E)   Latin America has more Protestants, Jews, and Muslims.

Question 3

Mahayanists, in contrast to Theravadists, emphasize Buddha's

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A)   life of self-help.
B)   compassion.
C)   renouncing of worldly goods.
D)   wisdom.
E)   practice of meditation.

Question 4

Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?

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A)   Buddhism
B)   Sikhism
C)   Islam
D)   Judaism
E)   Christianity

Question 5

-This map shows that Muslims are clustered in

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A)   Southwestern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of South Asia.
B)   Southwestern Asia, North Africa, South America, and parts of North America.
C)   Eastern Europe, North America, South Asia, and parts of Russia, China, and Japan.
D)   East Asia, South Asia, and North Africa.
E)   Southwestern Asia, North Africa, and parts of South Asia and Southeastern Asia.

Question 6

As the maps in this chapter illustrate, Christianity has the most widespread geographic distribution of any religion.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of these penalties were imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan?

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A)   Men were beaten for shaving their beards.
B)   Homosexuals were buried alive.
C)   Prostitutes were hanged in public, and men were stoned for committing adultery.
D)   Thieves' hands were cut off, and women with nail polish had their fingers cut off.
E)   All of these answers are correct.

Question 8

A geographer researching the practices of Tibetan Buddhists as well as the world travels of the Dalai Lama is studying

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A)   spatial connections in religion.
B)   theological connections in religion.
C)   monetary connections in religion.
D)   connections between Christianity and Buddhism.
E)   connections between ethnic and universalizing religions.

Question 9

An ethnic religion is

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A)   based on only one language.
B)   appealing mostly to one group of people in one place.
C)   based on belief in one particular spiritual leader.
D)   younger than a universalizing religion.
E)   more peaceful than a universalizing religion.

Question 10

Discuss two or three examples from within the last 50 years, that highlight how religion has been a source of territorial conflict among people. What other factors besides religion have also contributed to those conflicts?

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Question 11

Unlike other universalizing religions, Buddhism

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A)   remained primarily concentrated in one region of the world.
B)   was not begun by an individual founder and then diffused elsewhere.
C)   was founded in China.
D)   worships more than one god.
E)   diffused primarily by colonization.

Question 12

Followers of which religious branch do not trace their origin to Abraham?

Accepted Answer

A)   Eastern Orthodox
B)   Mahayana
C)   Shiite
D)   Sunni
E)   Judaism

Question 13

-The maps in this chapter indicate that in Sub-Saharan Africa,

Accepted Answer

A)   about half of the people are Protestant.
B)   about one-fourth of the people are Protestant.
C)   about half of the people are Catholic.
D)   about one-fourth of the people are animists.
E)   about one-fourth of the people are Orthodox Christian.

Question 14

With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment,

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A)   few religions derive meaningful events from the physical environment.
B)   religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment.
C)   religion is no longer an important source of identification for a distinct cultural group.
D)   all religions appeal primarily to people living in their land of origin.
E)   religious ideas nearly all arise from changes in the physical environment.

Question 15

How has the concept of pilgrimage changed in the modern world?

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Question 16

Christianity first diffused from its hearth through

Accepted Answer

A)   contagious diffusion.
B)   hierarchical diffusion.
C)   relocation diffusion.
D)   expansion diffusion.
E)   military conquest.

Question 17

Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than a universalizing religion, partly because

Accepted Answer

A)   its main holidays relate to events in the life of its founder, Abraham.
B)   it uses a standard solar calendar rather than a lunar calendar.
C)   its rituals derive from the agricultural cycle in Israel.
D)   it commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.
E)   the holy text is the foundation of the religion.

Question 18

-Analysis of the charts in this chapter indicates that in the world population,

Accepted Answer

A)   more than half of the people are nonreligious.
B)   less than one-fifth of the people are non-religious.
C)   more than half of the people are Christian.
D)   about half of the people are Muslim.
E)   about two-thirds of the people are Christian.

Question 19

Given the geographic perspectives on religion that are discussed in this chapter, we might hypothesize in addition that victorious Spanish soldiers in 1492 were partly motivated by

Accepted Answer

A)   a fanatical "holy war" mentality and their Roman Catholic faith.
B)   a fanatical "holy war" mentality and their Protestant faith.
C)   a peaceful vision of their Roman Catholic faith.
D)   a nonreligious view of the world.
E)   a fanatical "holy war" mentality that they learned from Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Orthodox Christians.

Question 20

The most troublesome religious boundary in Western Europe is in Ireland.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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