Intercultural Communication Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Intercultural Communication explores the dynamics of communication between individuals and groups from different cultural backgrounds. The course examines cultural values, beliefs, norms, and worldviews and how these affect verbal and nonverbal communication styles, misunderstandings, and conflict resolution. Students will analyze barriers to effective intercultural interaction and develop practical skills for navigating diverse environments, enhancing global awareness and sensitivity. Through case studies, discussions, and experiential activities, the course prepares students to communicate more competently and ethically in multicultural workplaces, social settings, and international contexts.
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Cultural Anthropology Appreciating Cultural Diversity 15th Edition by Conrad Kottak
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Chapter 1: What Is Anthropology
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Q1) Anthropologists study only non-Western cultures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What is one of the most fundamental key assumptions that anthropologists share?
A) There are no universals, so cross-cultural research is bound to fail.
B) A degree in philosophy is the best way to produce good ethnography.
C) We can draw conclusions about human nature by studying a single society.
D) Anthropologists cannot agree on what anthropology is, much less share key assumptions.
E) A comparative, cross-cultural approach is essential to study the human condition.
Answer: E
Q3) As an academic discipline, anthropology falls under both the social sciences and the humanities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Culture
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Q1) In anthropology, cultural relativism is not a moral position but a methodological one. It states that
A) because cultural values vary between cultures, they cannot be analyzed and compared.
B) some cultures are relatively better than others.
C) in order to understand another culture fully, we must try to understand how the people in that culture see things.
D) to understand another culture, we must try to use tactics to jar people so that their true view of things is revealed.
E) to bring about desired cultural change, anthropologists should act as emissaries of the most evolved cultural values.
Answer: C
Q2) Although culture is one of the principal means humans use to adapt to their environment, some cultural traits can be harmful to a group's survival.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology
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Q1) The American Anthropological Association Code of Ethics prohibits anthropologists from working with governments on matters of national security.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Interpretive anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz approach the study of culture as A) a diachronic phenomenon.
B) functional puzzles.
C) a system of meaning.
D) underlying sets of rules that must be deciphered through the analysis of cultural patterns.
E) distinct from human psychology.
Answer: C
Q3) Morgan and Edward Tylor, both considered among the fathers of anthropology, worked within the paradigm of unilinear evolution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Applying Anthropology
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Q1) A commonly stated goal of recent development policy is to promote equity; that is, to reduce poverty and promote a more even distribution of wealth.
A)True
B)False
Q2) It is safe to assume that there is less cultural diversity among the poorest, less developed countries in the world.
A)True B)False
Q3) Non-Western medicine treats illnesses symptomatically, seeking an immediate cure.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What term refers to the tendency to view less developed countries as more alike than they are?
A) cultural relativism
B) ethnobias
C) overinnovation
D) underdifferentiation
E) intervention philosophy
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) Language and communication involve much more than just verbal speech. The study of communication through body movements, stances, gestures, and facial expressions is known as
A) linguistic physiology.
B) biosemantics.
C) kinesics.
D) protolinguistics.
E) diglossia.
Q2) Diglossia refers to linguistic groups, like those in Papua New Guinea and Australia, that distinguish between only two colors: black and white or dark and light.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Studies investigating differences in the way men and women talk are examples of sociolinguistics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Syntax refers to the rules that dictate the order of words in a language.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Ethnicity and Race
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Q1) An examination of racial taxonomies from around the world indicates that A) all cultures classify races similarly.
B) the classification of racial types is an arbitrary and culturally specific process.
C) classifying racial types can best be done by considering only phenotypic traits.
D) classifying racial types can best be done by considering only the genotype involved.
E) the best classification of racial types considers genotype as well as phenotype.
Q2) Racial categories in Brazil are not rigid; rather, they often change depending on the social setting.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ethnocide refers to the deliberate elimination of a cultural tradition through aggressive policies forcing assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is hypodescent? Why is it an arbitrary rule of racial classification?
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Chapter 7: Making a Living
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Q1) How are nonindustrial economic systems embedded in society?
A) People are not aware that they are working toward a goal.
B) The economic system has little to do with the everyday life of the people.
C) The economic system cannot easily be separated from other systems, such as kinship.
D) Most nonindustrial economies are managed systems.
E) Most economic activity takes place far from home.
Q2) Yehudi Cohen's adaptive strategies
A) suggest hypothetical correlations-that is, a causal relation between two or more variables, such as economic and cultural variables.
B) suggest multidirectional relationships between a society's mean and its mode of production.
C) suggest that economic systems are a better way of categorizing societies than relying on cultural patterns.
D) suggest an association between the economies of societies and their social features.
E) have strong predictive powers when analyzed in computer models.
Q3) How is a rent fund different from a subsistence fund? Cite examples to clarify your argument.
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Chapter 8: Political Systems
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Q1) This chapter describes various ways in which dominant members of society exert control over a population by resorting to indirect or even covert means. What are some examples of this? What concepts have some come up with to understand the social dynamics that arise from these situations? Can you think of some contemporary examples of the use of these means of control?
Q2) According to Max Weber, prestige is the basis of
A) economic status.
B) political status.
C) social status.
D) power.
E) political capital.
Q3) Which of the following kinds of societies is most likely to have stratum endogamy (marriage within one's own group)?
A) band
B) state
C) chiefdom
D) society with segmentary lineage organization
E) tribe
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Chapter 9: Gender
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Q1) Recently, India's four largest cities introduced commuter trains exclusively for female passengers. The aim of this new service was to
A) support women's effort to keep men out of their own domestic space.
B) offer women an alternative method of transportation to and from work with less risk of harassment or violence.
C) offer women work in the transportation industry.
D) help women maintain their traditional gender roles in society.
E) increase the gap between public and domestic spaces that women inhabit on a day-to-day basis.
Q2) Transvestism, when members of one gender (usually males) dress as another (female), is
A) very common in Brazil, given this country's general acceptance of alternative gender roles.
B) an example of the biological basis of sexual expression.
C) evidence of the cultural limits in determining gender roles.
D) perhaps the most common way of forming genders alternative to male and female.
E) increasingly popular among gay men in Brazil.
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Chapter 10: Families, Kinship, and Descent
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Q1) What makes up ego's nuclear family of orientation?
A) parents and siblings
B) spouse and offspring
C) extended family
D) lineal kin
E) collateral kin
Q2) Traditionally, in some areas of the former Yugoslavia, several nuclear families were embedded in an extended family household called a zadruga. Among the Nayars in southern India, it was typical for people to live in matrilineal extended family compounds called tarawads. Descriptions of these two culturally specific cases highlight that
A) children who grow up in stable kin groups are better off than those who don't.
B) the nuclear family is the only stable kin group arrangement.
C) nuclear families are extremely rare in terms of living arrangements.
D) extended family households are an adaptive strategy to extreme poverty.
E) there are many alternatives to the nuclear family.
Q3) In unilineal descent, one's ancestry is traced through only one line of descent.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Marriage
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Q1) With polyandry, a woman takes more than one husband.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following marital customs functions to maintain distinctions between groups?
A) progeny price
B) levirate
C) sororate
D) sororal polygyny
E) endogamy
Q3) How do the rules of endogamy function in society?
A) They prove that the incest taboo is not the cultural universal it was once thought to be.
B) They encourage the extension of affinal bonds to an ever-widening circle of people.
C) They tend to maintain social distinctions between groups.
D) They expand the gene pool.
E) They extend kin ties across classes.
Q4) Does the practice of paying a dowry necessarily imply gender inequality?
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Chapter 12: Religion
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Q1) A major difference between rituals and plays is that the participants in rituals are performing in earnest.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Christianity is the world's largest religion, with some 2.1 billion adherents, followed by Islam, which has approximately 1.3 billion practitioners. Islam is the fastest-growing religion. This chapter's "Appreciating Diversity" segment examines how Islam has spread by adapting successfully to many national and cultural differences, including the presence of other religions that were already established in the areas to which Islam has spread. An important result of this process is that
A) Islam is far from homogeneous-the faith reflects the increasingly diverse areas in which it is practiced.
B) unlike Christianity, Islam has the capacity to transform local culture profoundly.
C) Islam is growing at the expense of other beliefs and practices.
D) the separation of religion and state is disappearing in most places in the world.
E) the West is losing the culture war.
Q3) How do you explain the universality of religion?
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Chapter 13: Arts, Media, and Sports
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Q1) Discuss why it is so difficult to come up with a universally applicable definition for art.
Q2) Because appreciation of the arts is acquired through enculturation, what one finds aesthetically pleasing depends in part on one's cultural background.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Music is one of the most social kinds of artistic expression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Any media-borne image or message can be analyzed in terms of its nature, including its symbolism and its effects. It can also be analyzed as a text, which refers to A) literary works and other print media.
B) anything produced by mass media having commercial value.
C) anything that can be read or processed, interpreted, and assigned meaning by anyone exposed to it.
D) anything that can be read but whose interpretation is determined by the producer of the text.
E) our capacity to codify information.
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Chapter 14: The World System and Colonialism
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Q1) How does the modern world system affect ethnographers?
A) There are almost no truly isolated cultures left, making it difficult to do real ethnographic research.
B) They need to be aware of the fact that any culture they study is influenced by and has influence on other cultures.
C) They must be careful when comparing their findings to those who did work in the first half of the 20th century, when there were many isolated cultures.
D) There are no more indigenous peoples.
E) It has brought about a blending of the races, which makes it harder to identify specific cultures.
Q2) How is the world stratification system related to the structural positions within the world capitalist economy? What about the modern stratification system within the United States?
Q3) The current world stratification system features a substantial contrast between capitalists and workers in the core nations, and workers on the periphery.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World
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Q1) One of the challenges that environmental anthropologists face is that risk perception is rarely related to actions that can reduce threat to the environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ refers to the rapid spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others, or its imposition on other cultures.
A) Diasporation
B) Symbolic domination
C) Cultural imperialism
D) Conquest
E) Colonialism
Q3) Essentialism describes the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the difference between postmodernity and postmodernism? How has postmodernity affected the units of anthropological study?
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