Communication Across Cultures
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the complexities of communication among individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds, emphasizing the influence of cultural norms, values, and practices on verbal and nonverbal interaction. Students will analyze theories of intercultural communication, identify barriers to effective cross-cultural exchange, and develop practical strategies for adapting messages and behaviors in global and multicultural contexts. Through case studies, discussions, and experiential learning activities, the course aims to enhance cultural awareness, empathy, and competence, equipping students to communicate effectively and ethically in an increasingly interconnected world.
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An Introduction to Intercultural Communication 9th Edition by Fred E. Jandt
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Chapter 1: Defining Culture and Communication
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Q1) For how many languages does Google Translate provide text translations?
A) 30
B) more than 100
C) fewer than 10
D) 50
Answer: B
Q2) Research on genetic material has shown that ______.
A) humans alive today descended from different groups from different continents
B) humans alive today share ancestry from one group in Africa
C) humans alive today share ancestry from one group in Europe
D) ancestry of humans can only be studied for existing groups
Answer: B
Q3) ______ suggests that no one culture is inherently superior to the other coexisting culture; however,mutuality may not be easily established.
Answer: Coculture
Q4) Most scientists have abandoned the concept of biological race as a meaningful concept.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Barriers to Intercultural Communication
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Q1) Profiling refers to the law enforcement practice of scrutinizing certain individuals based on characteristics thought to indicate a likelihood of criminal behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The term Asian American was created early in the 19th century to refer to all people of Asian descent in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) If you consider that people display emotions inappropriately when the display of emotions in their culture is different from the display of emotions in your culture,you exemplify which type of intercultural barrier?
A) high anxiety
B) assuming similarity instead of difference
C) ethnocentrism
D) stereotyping
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Context, Perception, and Competence
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Q1) If in the airport terminal an announcement is made asking you by name to report to the ticketing counter,you will probably hear your name even in that environment of competing stimuli.This is evidence for the ______ step of the perception process.
Answer: selection
Q2) Compare and contrast low-context and high-context culture.
Answer: Varies,but all should define low-context cultures as those in which little of the meaning is determined by the context because the message is encoded in the explicit code and high-context cultures as those in which less has to be said or written because more of the meaning is in the physical environment or already shared by people.
Q3) The ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with people of other cultures describes intercultural communication ______.
A) success
B) maturity
C) competence
D) effectiveness
Answer: D
Q4) Low-context cultures such as the United States use ______ negotiation.
Answer: direct-face
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Chapter 4: Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Gestures,body movements,facial expressions,and eye contact are behaviors termed ______.
Q2) Use the example of Korean storekeepers and African American customers to identify nonverbal misunderstandings.
Q3) A French parliamentary committee found that Muslim women's covering of their faces was against the French republican principles of secularism and equality.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is the study of our use of personal space?
A) haptics
B) kinesics
C) olfactics
D) proxemics
Q5) Directing turn taking in a conversation is an example of using nonverbals to ______ interaction.
Q6) Outline and evaluate the possible arguments in the Fragante v.City and County of Honolulu case.
Q7) According to Hall,doing many things at once is known as ______ time.
Q8) Many American-Indian people understand time to be ______.
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Chapter 5: Language as a Barrier
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Q1) The two different translations possible for such expressions as "read between the lines" or "my leg went to sleep" would be examples of what translation problem?
A) conceptual equivalence
B) experiential equivalence
C) idiomatic equivalence
D) vocabulary equivalence
Q2) The most widely spoken first language in the world is ______.
Q3) Using at least three examples,explain linguistic relativism.
Q4) For religious reasons,spoken Arabic does not change nor vary from country to country.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Even when cultures speak the same language,as do Australia and the United States,there can be ______ differences.
Q6) Today's estimate is that one fifth to one fourth of the world's population is familiar with English.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Westerners favor ______ whereas Easterners favor relationships.
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Chapter 6: Dimensions of Nation-State Cultures
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Q1) How baseball is played in Japan reflects the Japanese culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Both power distance and femininity are negatively related to the Environmental Sustainability Index.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss Hofstede's uncertainty avoidance dimension and provide examples of strong and weak uncertainty avoidance cultures.
Q4) Discuss the four associations related to Hofstede's power distance dimension.
Q5) Relate the Environmental Sustainability Index to the Hofstede dimensions.
Q6) Discuss the neutral versus emotional dimension as outlined by Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner.
Q7) A country high in Confucian work dynamism (indicating a long-term orientation)is
A) Canada
B) Great Britain
C) Pakistan
D) South Korea
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Chapter 7: Dominant USCultural Patterns Using Value
Orientation Theory
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Q1) Explain how the scientific method relates to U.S.culture.
Q2) In the United States,people have a strong faith in the ______ method of solving problems.
Q3) What positive and negative consequences have resulted from the U.S.time orientation?
Q4) Historian David Hackett Fischer argues that early immigrants from England established distinctive regional cultures in the United States that remain today.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The word ______ did not enter the English vocabulary until 1835 when Tocqueville used it to describe what he found in the United States.
Q6) Discuss rationality in the United States and other Western cultures.
Q7) Discuss activity orientation in the United States.
Q8) Discuss Indigenous Americans' influence on U.S.cultural patterns.
Q9) In 1981,Garreau described his "______ nations" of North America.
A) nine
B) six
C) two
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Chapter 8: Religion and Identity
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Q1) Discuss the diversity of the Arab states.
Q2) Islam is the only world religion that offers rules by which to govern a ______ as well as a set of spiritual beliefs in its holy book.
Q3) What is Sharia?
A) Muslim duty of sharing wealth with the poor
B) an ascetic movement throughout Islam directed toward mysticism
C) the canonical law that includes the Qur'an and the sunnah
D) the traditions relating to the deeds and utterances of the Prophet Muhammad
Q4) Saudi Arabia is the most ______ Islamic country in the world.
Q5) Muslims consider Muhammad the last and greatest ______.
Q6) In modern times,the separation of church and state and the creation of societies governed by secular laws have fostered freedom of thought and expression in Arab states.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Explain the human being-nature orientation as it applies to Islamic cultures.
Q8) Discuss the issues related to social media in the Arab world.
Q9) Shinto is exclusively nationalistic.
A)True
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Chapter 9: Culture and Gender
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Q1) Discuss the role of women in the Arab states.
Q2) The Human Development Index is a measure of life expectancy,education,and political participation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) List and briefly discuss examples of third genders.
Q4) As of 2012,in ______,anyone over the age of 18 can simply choose their gender identity and revise official documents without judicial or medical approval.
Q5) ______ countries have some sort of female quota for political representation.
Q6) Today,more women enroll in higher education than men in ______ countries.
Q7) Define the words sex and gender.
Q8) Which was a secret language used by women in China to communicate with other women?
A) abaya
B) panchayat
C) Nushu
D) wan, xi, shao
Q9) The relationship between language and power has been a focus in ______theory.
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Q10) Discuss the issues related to gender equality in China.
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Chapter 10: Immigration and Acculturation
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Q1) Giving up one's original cultural identity and moving into full participation in a new culture is ______.
A) assimilation
B) integration
C) marginalization
D) separation
Q2) The term insularity is used to connote separation only.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ______ culture shock may occur upon a sojourner's return to the home country.
Q4) In Israel,citizenship may be acquired by birth,residence,naturalization,or the Law of
Q5) Identify categories of acculturation.
Q6) By 1990,the Islamic population in the European Union was 40 million.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The collapse of the ______ resulted in a major increase in immigration into Israel.
Q8) Western Europe is challenged with increasing immigration,particularly from ______ countries.
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Chapter 11: Cultures Within Cultures
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Q1) Cultures within cultures are most often based on geographic region,______,or economic or social class.
Q2) What purposes does Spanglish serve?
Q3) The majority of Cambodian,Laotian,Hmong,and Vietnamese refugee teenagers become involved in gang criminal behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) U.S.residents today increasingly recognize their ______ roots.
Q5) The term ______ most often refers to Spanish-speaking individuals who came from,or whose ancestors came from,anywhere in Latin America.
Q6) The largest Spanish-language television network in the United States is ______.
A) Galavision
B) SIN
C) Telemundo
D) Univision
Q7) Define and briefly discuss diaspora.
Q8) The Amish broke from the Mennonites in the late 17th century and immigrated to ______.
Q9) Discuss the consequences of a growing Spanish-language media.
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Chapter 12: Identity and Subgroups
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Q1) Some individuals may not accept the ______ that their behavior would lead others to assume.
Q2) What conclusions can be reached about national cultures based on acceptance and rejection of homosexuality?
Q3) Organizations can have their own symbols.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Besides argot,______ and values contribute to defining subgroup identity and boundaries.
A) media use
B) violence
C) views of change
D) nonverbal messages
Q5) ______ is the enforced belief in heterosexual male dominance and control.
Q6) Social media is not important for shared subgroup identity.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Identify the elements of Google's corporate culture.
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Q8) Which company's corporate story was turned into a children's book?
Q9) Define and briefly discuss argot.
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Chapter 13: Contact Between Cultures
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Q1) Individuals who are able to informally influence other individuals' attitudes or overt behavior in a desired way with relative frequency are ______.
A) change agents
B) early adopters
C) innovators
D) opinion leaders
Q2) In 2004,one billion servings of the Japanese icon ______ were sold in Mexico.
Q3) An ethical consideration in introducing innovations into cultures deals with ______.
A) antiquarian virtuosity
B) cost
C) religion
D) unanticipated consequences
Q4) ______ communication has been focused on such issues as agricultural practices,family planning,and infant health.
Q5) Discursive imperialism is the process by which innovations are spread to members of a culture.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Future Challenges
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Q1) Women's economic status is related to ______.
Q2) Discuss Putnam's research in regard to immigration.
Q3) Discuss disparities of wealth in the world today.
Q4) Why is immigration successful in the long run?
Q5) In 1979,the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ______ Against Women.
Q6) Women's economic status is related to ______.
A) work
B) fertility rate
C) men
D) violence
Q7) Discuss nation-state as a source of identity.
Q8) Discuss worldwide perceived threats to culture.
Q9) Discuss the relationship between women's economic status and reproduction rates.
Q10) Othering can be used to justify suppression and even extermination.
A)True
B)False
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Q11) The war on terrorism has been accepted as legitimate by Muslims.
A)True
B)False
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