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CHAPTER 2: Culture and Intercultural Communication
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Multiple-Choice
1. Culture is taught by the explanations people receive for the natural and human events around
them. This process is an example of how culture
A) is a set of shared perceptions.
B) involves beliefs, values, norms, and social practices
C) is learned.
D) affects behavior.
Answer: C
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2. Which term refers to rules for appropriate communication behaviors?
A) norms
B) values
C) beliefs
D) social practices
Answer: A
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3. Which term refers to the predictable behaviors patterns that members of a culture typically
follow?
A) norms
B) values
C) beliefs
D) social practices
Answer: D
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4. A term used to refer to a wide variety of groups who share a language, historical origins,
religious traditions, and identification with a cultural system is
A) ethnicity
B) subculture
C) race
D) coculture
Answer: A
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5. According to Lustig and Koester, which one of the following is most likely NOT a force that
creates cultural differences?
A) biology
B) ecology
C) pathology
D) history
Answer: C
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6. The unique experiences that are a part of a culture’s collective wisdom are a culture’s
A) history.
B) cultural knowledge.
C) system of logic.
D) consciousness.
Answer: A
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7. Lustig and Koester use the term _________ to refer to the external environment in which a
culture lives.
A) cultural atmosphere
B) natural habitat
C) environment
D) ecology
Answer: D
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8. Cultures that develop in warm climates are characterized by
A) decreased interpersonal contact.
B) higher levels of interpersonal involvement.
C) less interpersonal distance.
D) more use of sign language.
Answer: B
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9. According to studies of interracial adoption, ________ are the most critical factors in
determining children’s IQ scores.
A) heredity and race
B) educational and economic advantages
C) psychological influences
D) national origin and genetic make-up
Answer: B
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10. Nonverbal communication systems help
A) identify cultural outcasts
B) reduce anxiety.
C) define the boundaries between members and nonmembers of a culture.
D) determine who may be a member of a culture.
Answer: C
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11. In order to solve the problem of overpopulation and the resulting food shortages, while also
recognizing the church’s ban on artificial methods of birth control, women in late 19th
century Ireland did NOT marry before the age of 30. Of what phenomenon is this is an
example?
A) breakdown of institutional networks
B) ecological effects of a changing environment
C) interrelatedness of cultural forces
D) historical influences of religion
Answer: C
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12. Europeans were able to conquer the native people in the Americas because of the Europeans’
A) access to many plants and animals that could be domesticated
B) intellectual superiority
C) greater initiative
D) greater ingenuity
Answer: A
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13. Which term typically refers to studying comparisons of interactions among people of
different cultures?
A) intracultural communication
B) international communication
C) cross-cultural communication
D) interracial communication
Answer: C
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14. Scholars who compare nations’ media usage study
A) intracultural communication.
B) international communication.
C) cross-cultural communication.
D) interracial communication.
Answer: B
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True-False
1. People become members of a particular cultural group through a process of learning.
Answer: TRUE
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2. The term beliefs refers to what a group of people defines as good and bad or what it regards
as important.
Answer: FALSE
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3. The term values refers to what a group of people defines as good and bad or what it regards
as important.
Answer: TRUE
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4. Culture exists solely in people’s minds.
Answer: FALSE
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5. According to Lustig and Koester, the term culture can be used to refer to couples and small
groups as well as to large groups of people.
Answer: FALSE
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6. The terms culture and nation are equivalent terms.
Answer: FALSE
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7. Race is a more encompassing term than either culture or nation.
Answer: TRUE
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8. Race is a much more specific and limiting term than either culture or nation.
Answer: FALSE
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9. Race can form the basis for prejudicial communication that can be a major obstacle to
intercultural communication..
Answer: TRUE
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10. Lustig and Koester suggest that the terms subculture and coculture are problematic and
should not be used.
Answer: TRUE
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11. Historical events form the shared knowledge that guide a culture’s collective actions.
Answer: TRUE
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12. People who live in areas of the U.S. that have harsher and colder climate conditions tend to
be less tolerant of ambiguity than those who reside in warmer areas of the country.
Answer: FALSE
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13. People who live in areas of the U.S. that have harsher and colder climate conditions tend to
be more tolerant of ambiguity than those who reside in warmer areas of the country.
Answer: TRUE
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14. Media are any technologies that extend the ability to communicate beyond the limits of faceto-face encounters.
Answer: TRUE
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15. Mass media are a form of technology.
Answer: TRUE
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16. Biologists claim that there is far more genetic diversity within each race than there is among
races.
Answer: TRUE
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17. Scholars generally agree that there is no scientific basis for beliefs in biological differences
based on race.
Answer: TRUE
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18. Scholars are in generally agree that there is a sound scientific basis for biological differences
based on race.
Answer: FALSE
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19. Membership in a particular racial category is almost entirely a function of one’s biological
and genetic characteristics.
Answer: FALSE
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20. Government is considered an institutional network.
Answer: TRUE
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21. Expectations about such common interpersonal relationships as family and friend often differ
across cultures.
Answer: TRUE
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22. The forces that promote cultural differences are largely independent of each other.
Answer: FALSE
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23. The average marrying age of 13 for girls in India came about because of the high
unemployment rate of young women.
Answer: FALSE
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24. Europeans were able to conquer the native people in the Americas because of the Europeans’
greater initiative and ingenuity.
Answer: FALSE
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25. Subsequent communication events could make a relationship far less intercultural with the
passage of time.
Answer: TRUE
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26. All communication between people from different countries will fall on the “most
intercultural” end of the continuum.
Answer: FALSE
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27. The degree of similarity or the amount of difference between interactants has little effect on
the degree of interculturalness.
Answer: FALSE
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28. Differences in such attributes as cultural patterns, verbal and nonverbal codes, and
relationship rules can lead to dissimilar interpretations and meanings during communicative
events.
Answer: TRUE
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29. Similarities in such attributes as cultural patterns, verbal and nonverbal codes, and
relationship rules can lead to similar interpretations and meanings during communicative
events.
Answer: TRUE
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30. The term “intracultural” refers to communication between culturally similar individuals.
Answer: TRUE
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31. Ethnicity and race rarely contribute to perceived effects of cultural differences on
communication.
Answer: FALSE
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