Cultural Aspects of Food Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the complex relationship between culture and food, examining how food practices shape and are shaped by social, religious, historical, and economic factors across different societies. Students will investigate traditions, rituals, and meanings associated with food, the role of globalization in transforming culinary landscapes, and issues surrounding identity, power, and sustainability. Through case studies, literature, and experiential learning, the course provides a comprehensive understanding of how food acts as a symbol and agent of cultural expression and change.
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Food and Culture 7th Edition by Pamela Goyan Kittler
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Chapter 1: Food and Culture
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Q1) Children learn food preferences from valued or trusted others.Who has the least long-lasting influence?
A) Teachers
B) Peers
C) Older siblings
D) Parents
E) Daycare providers
Answer: D
Q2) Which term describes the idea that although foods from throughout the world are available and often affordable, there is a need for consistency and conservatism?
A) omnivore's paradox
B) American paradox
C) multiculturalism
D) culinary compass
E) culinary conservatism
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices
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Q1) The American majority value that all people should have equal access to health care is shared by almost all cultures worldwide.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In biomedical culture, three causes of disease are identified:
A) immediate causes, underlying causes, and ultimate causes.
B) immediate causes, emerging causes, and ultimate causes.
C) immediate causes, intermediate causes, and underlying causes.
D) spiritual causes, emerging causes, and ultimate causes.
E) spiritual causes, underlying causes, and immediate causes.
Answer: A
Q3) The yin and yang system of dietary planning is dominant in what cultural group?
A) Asian
B) American
C) Hispanic
D) Swedish
E) African
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Intercultural Communication
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Q1) The ultimate stage for the provider to reach in becoming skilled at cross-cultural communications is
A) unconscious incompetence.
B) conscious incompetence.
C) conscious competence.
D) unconscious competence.
E) preconscious competence.
Answer: D
Q2) "The individual is usually defined by group association" describes what type of culture?
A) high-context
B) low-context
C) interactive-context
D) community-context
E) intermediate-context
Answer: A
Q3) Low-context cultures tend to be polychronistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Food and Religion
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Q1) According to kosher standards, which food(s)is/are <b>not</b> permitted?
A) mammals with a cloven foot
B) animals slaughtered according to shehitah
C) blood from any animal
D) honey because it is from an insect
E) liver because it contains too much blood
Q2) What is the term describing the 40 days before Easter that means "spring"?
A) Lent
B) Lupercalia
C) Passover
D) Annunciation
E) Timkat
Q3) One major fasting period in the Roman Catholic religion starts forty days after the celebration of Easter.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss one of the reasons anthropologists have proposed for the prohibition of eating meat.
Q5) Compare the meat-slaughtering laws associated with halal and kashrut.
Q6) Discuss briefly the similarities of Protestantism and Buddhism.
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Chapter 5: Native Americans
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Q1) As thanks for a plentiful summer harvest, southern Native American nations celebrated what festival?
A) Peyote Festival
B) Green Corn Festival
C) Festival of the Sun
D) Festival of the Corn
E) Harvest Festival
Q2) What are the pads of the prickly pear cactus called?
A) tunas
B) nopales
C) piñon
D) pulp
E) pozole
Q3) Briefly discuss why sharing food is an important aspect in most Native American societies today.
Q4) Name and describe the three transitional adaptations of members of the Ojibwa tribe that have been identified and associated with increasingly acculturated lifestyles.Is it assumed that these transitions may be typical of other native groups?
Q5) Describe the therapeutic use of corn by Native Americans.
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Chapter 6: Northern and Southern Europeans
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Q1) When comparing northern and southern Italy, what are the main regional differences in pasta and in other core foods?
Q2) Since the 1970s, approximately how many British have immigrated to the U.S.per year?
A) 5-10 thousand
B) 10-20 thousand
C) 20-30 thousand
D) 50-60 thousand
E) 60-70 thousand
Q3) Which country in Europe has some of the best farmland, with three-fifths of its land under cultivation?
A) Great Britain
B) Ireland
C) France
D) Italy
E) Scotland
Q4) Contrast the religion and socioeconomic status of the early Scotch Irish immigrants in the 1700s to that of the second wave of Irish immigrants in the mid-1800s.
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Chapter 7: Central Europeans - People of the Former Soviet
Union - and Scandinavians
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Q1) In Russia an array of appetizers, which may range from two simple dishes to an entire table spread with countless hors d'oeuvres, is called
A) mohnkuchen.
B) zakuski.
C) borscht.
D) abendbrot.
E) mahdzoon
Q2) Which country's immigrants suffered from the Chernobyl nuclear power accident of 1979?
A) Russia
B) Czech Republic
C) Poland
D) Austria
E) Ukraine
Q3) How many different ways do the Czechs prepare carp during Christmastime?
A) one
B) six
C) three
D) seven
E) four
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Chapter 8: Africans
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Q1) What African American holiday was created in 1966 to celebrate the unity of all people of African heritage?
A) Juneteenth
B) Sukuma wiki
C) Kwanzaa
D) Family Sunday
E) African New Year
Q2) Describe culturally specific attitudes of African Americans that may impact use of the biomedical system.
Q3) Consumption of what substance is common in many parts of Ethiopia and is associated with esophageal cancer?
A) clay
B) enset
C) starch
D) fool
E) anjeero
Q4) What different groups influenced the development of African American and traditional southern cuisine?
Q5) Define pica and describe the nutritional problems it might cause.
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Chapter 9: Mexicans and Central Americans
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Q1) Which U.S.border region has a chile pepper that was developed specifically for that region and dominates the seasoning?
A) New Mexico
B) California
C) Texas
D) Sonora
E) Tijuana
Q2) What does the concept of la raza, first promoted in the 1960s as a pride and solidarity movement, mean?
A) "We are one."
B) "pride for the Mexicans"
C) "the people"
D) "manhood"
E) "tough guy"
Q3) The origins of Mexican cuisine is least likely to stem from the
A) Aztec.
B) French.
C) Viennese.
D) Malays.
E) Spanish.
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Chapter 10: Caribbean Islanders and South Americans
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Q1) Maté is a beverage commonly drunk in South America that is made as a tea.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are some of the other cultures that have influenced the cuisine of the Caribbean Islands?
Q3) People from what country were the first documented South Americans to come to the U.S.?
A) Argentina
B) Peru
C) Chile
D) Venezuela
E) Brazil
Q4) Which group of Caribbean Islanders are <b>not</b> technically immigrants because they are U.S.citizens?
A) Cubans
B) Dominicans
C) Puerto Ricans
D) Jamaicans
E) Haitians
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Chapter 11: East Asians
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Q1) Sympathy healing refers to the belief that if the doctor listens attentively and supports the patient emotionally, a better prognosis is expected.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following best describes Chinese food preparation?
A) Most foods are eaten raw.
B) Cooked foods may be eaten cold.
C) Both meat and vegetables are grilled.
D) Foods are never deep-fried.
E) Fruit must be cooked before it is eaten.
Q3) What is sliced raw fish or squid called in Japan?
A) sushi
B) udon
C) sashimi
D) tempura
E) ikura
Q4) Congee is Chinese rice porridge, often eaten for breakfast or when a person is ill.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders
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Q1) Religion and medicine were closely linked in Pacific Islander culture.Many traditional practices were dropped due to
A) increased availability of trade goods.
B) adoption of nonnative faiths.
C) electricity.
D) television.
E) decreases in medicinal plants.
Q2) What is the Filipino belief meaning that life is controlled by the will of God and by supernatural forces?
A) yin and um
B) bahala na
C) mal aire
D) usog
E) dab tsog
Q3) Samoans believe eating the wrong foods can cause dislocation of the to'ala.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the meaning of emptying your plate versus leaving some food at the end of a meal in Southeast Asia?
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Chapter 13: People of the Balkans and the Middle East
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Q1) What is the term Iranians use for undifferentiated feelings of physical and emotional discomfort?
A) narahati
B) tagdir
C) ko'hl
D) khella
E) roti
Q2) Moroccan food reflects Berber cooking.The Berbers are
A) people from Sub-Saharan Africa.
B) from the Maghreb region.
C) the Shiite Muslims.
D) Moghuls.
E) from southern Albania originally.
Q3) Census data did not differentiate between Egyptians and other Middle Easterners prior to 1900.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Are Middle Easterners high-context or low-context? How does this affect health care communications?
Q5) How do beliefs in the "will of God" or tagdir affect Iranian health care?
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Chapter 14: South Asians
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Q1) In Pakistan, what kind of holidays are Pakistan Day, Independence Day, and Jinnah's birthday?
A) religious
B) fasting
C) mourning
D) outlawed
E) secular
Q2) In communication between Asian Indian people, an evasive response is considered more polite than a direct "no" response.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is the highest of the Indian castes?
A) Untouchables
B) Brahmans
C) Sudras
D) Vaisyas
E) Kshatriyas
Q4) Jalebis are deep-fried sweets that are soaked in sweet syrup before serving.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Regional Americans
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Q1) Wisconsin can thank the Swedish immigrants for the dairies and breweries for which this state is famous.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the dominant agricultural activity of the Mountain states?
A) cattle and sheep ranching
B) fruit and vegetable production
C) fish farming
D) dairy production
E) bee keeping and honey production
Q3) In the South, poultry is especially associated with what state?
A) Florida
B) Georgia
C) Virginia
D) Delaware
E) Texas
Q4) The American South is notable for its high numbers of Protestants.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is meant by the term "local history" when describing foods in an area?
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