Oxford University Press | Online Resource Centre | Multiple Choice Questions & Answers

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

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

What are the main features of a culture?

a) Customs and norms

b) History and religion

c) Language and ethnicity

d) All of the above

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

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

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

Oxford University Press, Online Resource Centre, Multiple Choice Questions & Answers.