What are the main features of a culture?

Related Mcqs:

1. What are the main features of ‘Western’ culture?

   A. Belief in universal rationality B. Progress through empirical science C. Goals involving mastery of nature D. All of the above...

2. What is a ‘civilization’?

   A. Europe and the US B. The broadest construction of cultural identity C. A society which is intellectually accomplished D. Mesopotamia...

3. What is meant by multiculturalism?

   A. Culture drawing on many influences but still within the patriarchal and Eurocentric framework B. Culture drawing on multiple influences undermining patriarchal culture C. Listening to world music D. Eating a big Mac in India...

4. What is religious fundamentalism?

   A. Extreme religious revivalism B. A type of political protest against the West or prevailing institutions C. A reaction to modernity D. All of the above...

5. For Huntington, the ‘clash of civilizations’ has drawn from?

   A. the relative decline of the West. B. a population explosion in the Muslim world and resurgence of Islam. C. the impact of expansion and transnational flows resulting from globalization D. all of the above...

6. Arrange the following events in chronological order:
   i.The Iranian revolution
   ii.The Algerian Civil War
   iii.The outbreak of intifada and growth of HAMAS in Palestine?

   A. i, ii, iii B. ii, iii, i C. iii, ii, i D. i, iii, ii...

7. What is ‘Sharia’?

   A. Holy struggle B. Islamic Law C. Veiling women D. None of the above...

8. What was the effect of the 1978-9 Iranian Revolution?

   A. A populist Islamic movement overthrew a powerful secular state B. The revolution caused the Iran-Iraq war C. The language of Jihad and martyrdom had been vindicated D. All of the above...