Intercultural Communication Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Intercultural Communication examines the processes, challenges, and strategies involved when individuals from different cultural backgrounds interact and share information. The course explores core concepts such as culture, identity, language, nonverbal communication, perception, and the impact of cultural differences on communication styles. Students will analyze real-world scenarios to better understand how values, beliefs, and context influence interactions in international, workplace, and social settings. By developing greater cultural awareness and competence, students will enhance their ability to communicate effectively and empathetically across diverse cultural environments.
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Conformity and Conflict 15th Edition by
James W. Spradley Late
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Chapter 1: Culture and Ethnography
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Q1) !Kung expressed disappointment with the ox Lee gave them for the Christmas feast because
A) the animal was too thin and old.
B) this was their way to "cool" a giver's potential arrogance.
C) the animal came from an outsider.
D) they were afraid that Lee would take the animal back if they showed approval.
Answer: B
Q2) The belief and feeling that one's own culture is best is called A) cultural relativism.
B) naive realism.
C) detached observation.
D) ethnocentrism.
Answer: D
Q3) The cross-cultural misunderstanding experienced between Lee and the !Kung occurred over
A) the cultural meaning of the gift of an ox.
B) the way Lee gave them the ox.
C) the cultural meaning of oxen.
D) the poor condition of the ox.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Language and Communication
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Q1) When the Tiv informed Laura Bohannan that she must be wrong about Hamlet's father's ghost because the dead cannot talk,they displayed what anthropologists call
A) culture shock.
B) naive realism.
C) tacit culture.
D) cross-cultural solidarity.
Answer: B
Q2) Three of the following describe ways the Tiv interpreted the story of Hamlet- Which one does <b>not</b>?
A) The Tiv felt that the ghost of Hamlet's father was really an omen sent by a witch.
B) The Tiv decided that Laertes killed his sister, Ophelia, through witchcraft.
C) The Tiv were pleased by the quick marriage of Hamlet's mother to her dead husband's brother.
D) The Tiv approved of Hamlet's desire to kill his father's brother.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Ecology and Subsistence
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Q1) The study of how people use their culture to adapt to particular environments is called
A) ecology.
B) cultural ecology.
C) environmental determinism.
D) physical ecology.
Answer: B
Q2) According to Lee,in 1963 the !Kung had a caloric intake of about __________ per person per day.
A) 3,030
B) 2,410
C) 2,140
D) 1,890
Answer: B
Q3) Planchones are
A) a natural resource that Chimanes use for trade.
B) a type of vegetable that grows in the Chimanes forest.
C) the name for the stretch of trail that each member of the team is assigned.
D) slabs of the mahogany tree cut down to six and one-half inches thick.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Economic Systems
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Q1) According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," the New York City economy
A) has lost tens of thousands of jobs since 1963.
B) is dominated by manufacturing jobs requiring unskilled labor.
C) has the same number of jobs that it did in 1963 but more of these are located in offices.
D) has gained more jobs in the service sector.
Q2) According to Patten in "Malawi Versus the World Bank," the "Washington Consensus" required countries that borrowed money from the World Bank and IMF to
A) privatize state-owned enterprises.
B) increase spending on health and education.
C) limit their trade with foreign markets.
D) use public monies to subsidize commodities.
Q3) Melissa,one of the subjects of Jessica Smith Rolston's essay "Women in the Mine," identifies herself as a
A) tomboy.
B) bitch.
C) lady.
D) girly girl.
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Chapter 5: Kinship and Family
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Q1) According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," three of the following statements are true about how the death of poor babies were treated in Alto do Cruzeiro and Bom Jesus de Mata,Brazil.Which one is <b>not</b>?
A) Babies were buried without headstones or markers.
B) Infant graves were reused for other infant burials later.
C) Midwives encouraged mothers of dead babies to grieve.
D) Civil authorities only required a two-paragraph report when a baby died.
Q2) On the basis of her work in northeastern Brazil and on literature describing practices in other parts of the world,Scheper-Hughes feels that
A) it was instinctual for mothers to grieve deeply over a dead son or daughter in every society, including those with high infant mortality rates.
B) it was natural for poor mothers to maintain emotional distance from infants who are likely to die.
C) civil authorities tried hard to improve the condition of poor women but the latter would not help themselves.
D) poor women let their babies die despite concerted efforts by church authorities to prevent them from doing so.
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Chapter 6: Roles and Inequality
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Q1) When the author returned to Spain in 2008,María Martínez
A) had converted to Islam and was working with Muslims who were victims of religious discrimination.
B) was still married but had retained her Catholic beliefs.
C) had divorced her husband due to religious differences.
D) still believed that an individual could not be both Spanish and Muslim.
Q2) A group ranked in a system of social stratification into which members are born for life is called a
A) caste.
B) class.
C) rank society.
D) stratified society.
Q3) According to Fish in "Mixed Blood," the American conception of race
A) is based on what body shapes people have.
B) is based on the racial identity of one's parents.
C) ignores the principle of hypo-descent.
D) is based on biological reality.
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Chapter 7: Law and Politics
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Q1) The case of the Gypsy defendant described by Sutherland in "The Case of an American Gypsy" represents a good illustration of what happens when
A) a foreign people takes advantage of a lenient judicial system.
B) greedy lawyers misrepresent their non-American clients.
C) anthropological testimony is misused in court.
D) a normal practice for one group is a crime for another.
Q2) As reported by Spradley and McCurdy in "Law and Order," anthropologist Laura Nader feels that in Ralu'a,there is a strong value on_________,which underlies the community's substantive and procedural law.
A) private property
B) religious piety
C) personal success
D) maintaining equilibrium
Q3) The people whom a policy will affect are called the A) public.
B) faction.
C) tribe.
D) band.
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Chapter 8: Religion, magic, and Worldview
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Q1) Magic,according to Malinowski,occurs in response to A) anger.
B) frustration.
C) anxiety.
D) social pressure.
Q2) According to Miner in "Body Ritual among the Nacirema," the Nacirema often undergo _________ procedures in order to care for their bodies.
A) month-long
B) painful
C) ineffective
D) sophisticated
Q3) According to Dubisch in "Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage," anthropologist Victor Turner believed that ritual
A) organized all human behavior.
B) could be seen in people's normal, day-to-day behavior.
C) had two poles, one ideological and the other sensory.
D) is designed to express freedom, self-reliance, patriotism, and individuality.
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Chapter 9: Globalization
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Q1) According to Shandy in "Nuer Refugees in America," the Nuer of South Sudan were first studied by
A) Sir E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
B) Sir Thok Ding.
C) Robert Gardner.
D) Sharon Hutchinson.
Q2) When Arjun Guneratne returned to Pipariya in 2009 he found that
A) some Tharu from the village were working overseas and sending money home.
B) the Tharu had built a small museum the depicted life as it had been many years ago but tourists never visited it.
C) tourists had largely stopped visiting the village, because its residents had now built brick houses and resembled their Brahmin neighbors.
D) globalization had failed to touch the Tharu.
Q3) According to Guneratne and Bjork in "Village Walks," Tharu villagers from Pipariya referred to tourists as
A) pests.
B) customers (of goods the villagers had for sale).
C) arrogant.
D) guests.
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Chapter 10: Using and Doing Anthropology
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Q1) According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest,"
A) overcrowding was not a problem at the prisons she studied.
B) women were very well paid for the work they did in the prison.
C) women sometimes faked illness to get faster medical attention.
D) women had equal and unfettered access to adequate medical care.
Q2) According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," the prison position of MTA was held by a
A) nurse practitioner.
B) medically trained guard.
C) medical appointment secretary.
D) designated prison doctor.
Q3) In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that the UDLP project to teach women how to raise and care for goats,and to incorporate milk into their children's food,was
A) flatly rejected by the village leaders.
B) so popular that it quickly had more participants than it could accommodate.
C) too difficult for the women of the villages to undertake.
D) failed due to the theft of goats by people in other villages.
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