Building Turkish Language

Which are the three factors that drove the birth of nations and nationalism?

• Capitalism, the administrative use of Latin, and vernaculars.

• Capitalism, printing press, and mass media.

• Capitalism, printing press, and vernaculars. 

Which of the following is NOT a key historical event in Anderson's "Imagined Communities"?

• The invention of the printing press

• The Thirty-Years War

• The Reformation

Can you explain why languages are, according to Anderson, crucial to national formation?

"Imagined Communities" is a book that theorizes about:

• Colonialism and the Colonial Imaginary

• The fall of monarchies in Europe

• Nations and Nationalism

Which of the following is an example of going beyond national formation merely through language consolidation?

• Turkey's process of national formation was achieved through the consolidation of an unified language; however, this process was not natural; rather, tha language was strategically exploited for national formation

• South American countries shared the same language as Spain, however, they "imagined" their national communities beyond language and through the use of other shared identity factors.

Which of the following factors would you consider cultural media in relation to national formation?

• Borders

• Sports, Music, Fashion

• Institutions such as the Parliament

Nations and nationalism are, according to Anderson:

• Ideational factors just as languages, flags or chants

• Mass media

• Social constructs

What is an imagined community, according to Benedict Anderson

In the efforts of unifying language in Turkey, intellectuals opted for which "version"?

• Turkish used by ordinary people

• Literary Turkish

• Turkish vocabulary formed by Arab and Persian words

• Ottoman Turkish

Which version of "Istanbul Turkish" became the national language?

• The spoken but not written

• The written but not spoken