Intercultural Communication Quiz
Intercultural Communication Quiz
Underline the best answer to the following 32 multiple choice questions.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Cultural demographics in the United States have changed due largely to ___a__.
a. a decrease in the European-American population
b. government efforts to increase immigration from Central American countries
c. reorganization of neighborhood boundary lines
d. an increase in the Latino and Asian American populations
2. Communication is defined as ___c__.
a. symbolic
b. a process
c. involving the creation of shared meanings
d. all of the above
3. Culture is taught by the explanations people receive for the natural and human events around them. This process is an example of how culture ___d__.
a. is a set of shared perceptions
b. involves beliefs, values, norms, and social practices
c. is learned
d. affects behavior
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 __b___.
a. ethnicity
b. subculture
c. race
d. coculture
5. Intercultural competence can improve __a___.
a. business ventures
b. learning experiences
c. foreign student exchanges
d. all of the above
6. Who ultimately determines if someone has communicated competently in an intracultural context?
a. Observers within a 20-foot range
b. The actual participants in the communicative event
c. A person trained in conducting cross-cultural research
d. Someone who was close enough to hear the entire conversation, but was not a participant------------------------ d
7. Shared interpretations about what the world is, what it should be, how people should behave, and people’s predictable behavior patterns are called ___b__.
a. cultural patterns
b. territorial maps
c. cultural beliefs
d. intercultural manifestations
8. What are the four components of cultural patterns?
a. peripheral beliefs, central beliefs, norms, and values
b.
Underline the best answer to the following 32 multiple choice questions.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Cultural demographics in the United States have changed due largely to ___a__.
a. a decrease in the European-American population
b. government efforts to increase immigration from Central American countries
c. reorganization of neighborhood boundary lines
d. an increase in the Latino and Asian American populations
2. Communication is defined as ___c__.
a. symbolic
b. a process
c. involving the creation of shared meanings
d. all of the above
3. Culture is taught by the explanations people receive for the natural and human events around them. This process is an example of how culture ___d__.
a. is a set of shared perceptions
b. involves beliefs, values, norms, and social practices
c. is learned
d. affects behavior
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 __b___.
a. ethnicity
b. subculture
c. race
d. coculture
5. Intercultural competence can improve __a___.
a. business ventures
b. learning experiences
c. foreign student exchanges
d. all of the above
6. Who ultimately determines if someone has communicated competently in an intracultural context?
a. Observers within a 20-foot range
b. The actual participants in the communicative event
c. A person trained in conducting cross-cultural research
d. Someone who was close enough to hear the entire conversation, but was not a participant------------------------ d
7. Shared interpretations about what the world is, what it should be, how people should behave, and people’s predictable behavior patterns are called ___b__.
a. cultural patterns
b. territorial maps
c. cultural beliefs
d. intercultural manifestations
8. What are the four components of cultural patterns?
a. peripheral beliefs, central beliefs, norms, and values
b.