Chapter 5: PRIVILEGING RELATIONSHIPS: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Contexts

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

a. Ethnic differences among European Americans have been blurred into one racial category.

b. People who avow or are ascribed an identity as White have an ethnicity.

c. Ethnicity does not apply to European Americans as the dominant group.

d. Ethnicity plays a role in choices that are made regarding who develops and sustains friendships and romantic relationships.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Interethnic Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Kathy, a White European American woman, and Oguz, a Muslim American man, have been dating for 2 months. Kathy has become more aware of how religious differences and stereotypes affect the people in Muslim communities including Oguz. Which state of intercultural romantic relationship development process is she in?

a. Racial/cultural awareness

b. Coping

c. Identity emergence

d. Relational maintenance

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Romantic Relationships Development
Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Which of the following is/are TRUE about intercultural relationships?

a. Globalizing forces have reduced the frequency and intensity of intercultural relationships.

b. Intercultural relationships today are unrelated to colonization.

c. Civil rights movement of the second half of the 20th century paved the way for intercultural relationships today.

d. Intercultural relationships are just like any other relationships because of the advancement of communication technology.

Learning Objective: 5-2: Explain how difference, power, privilege, and positionality are negotiated and transformed in intercultural relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: PRIVILEGING RELATIONSHIPS: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Randy thinks that heterosexuality is the only normal, natural, and universal form of sexuality. This type of assumption is called

a. classism.

b. racism.

c. heteronormativity.

d. sexism.

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexuality in Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Ashley is Norwegian American and Megan is German American. What type of intercultural relationship do they have?

a. Interethnic

b. Interreligious

c. International

d. Interracial

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Interethnic Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The advocates of same-sex marriage try to transform ______________ by creating space for family and relationships outside of heterosexual relationships.

a. intercultural relationships

b. antimiscegenation laws

c. class prejudice

d. heteronormativity

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexuality in Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Patrice (Haitian American and Christian) and Josh (White, Jewish American) have been in an interracial relationship for 6 months. Because of some unwelcome reactions and prejudicial comments from people who disagree with their relationship, they began to develop proactive and reactive strategies to manage challenges and discrimination. According to the model of romantic relationship development, which stage are they in?

a. Racial/cultural awareness

b. Coping

c. Identity emergence

d. Anticipation

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Romantic Relationships Development
Difficulty Level: Medoum

8. Defined as the personal attitudes individuals of any class culture may hold about members of other classes, ____________ shapes the dynamic of intercultural relationships.

a. classism

b. class prejudice

c. capitalism

d. anticapitalism

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Class Differences in Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

9. A person, group, or community who works across lines of cultural differences in support of and partnership with others is called

a. intercultural praxis.

b. intercultural friend.

c. intercultural ally.

d. intercultural partner.

Learning Objective: 5-4: Explore how intercultural relationships in the global context are potential sites of alliances for social justice in the global context.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Intercultural Alliances for Social Justice in the Global Context
Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Which of the following is TRUE of intercultural relationships?

a. Intercultural relationships are decreasing today as prejudices across cultures increase.

b. They are generally more superficial in the long run than relationships between people from the same culture.

c. People tend to enter into them more out of sympathy or curiosity rather than genuine liking.

d. Concerns of the extended family and societal perceptions of differences are accentuated compared with relationships between people from the same culture.

Learning Objective: 5-2: Explain how difference, power, privilege, and positionality are negotiated and transformed in intercultural relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Romantic Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

11. While Alison identifies as heterosexual, she is active in providing support and raising public awareness for people in the LGBTQ community. Alison is

a. an intercultural ally for LGBTQ community.

b. an intercultural friend of LGBTQ people.

c. an intercultural partner of LGBTQ community.

d. an intercultural companion of LGBTQ community.

Learning Objective: 5-4: Explore how intercultural relationships in the global context are potential sites of alliances for social justice in the global context.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Intercultural Alliances for Social Justice in the Global Context
Difficulty Level: Easy

12. “The systemic subordination of class groups by the dominant, privileged class” is a definition of

a. heterosexism.

b. racism.

c. sexism.

d. classism.

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Class Differences in Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Laura comes from an upper-class Christian family. When she started dating Ben, who is nonreligious and from working-class background, her family was not accepting of their relationship. This is an example of how

a. intercultural relationships often involve multiple and intersecting cultural differences, including class and religion.

b. religious differences matter more than class differences in intercultural relationships.

c. class differences matter more than religious differences in intercultural relationships.

d. class and religious differences do not matter as long as they share the same racial background.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Interreligious Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Eric and Michael have been in a romantic relationship for the past 10 years. Since their State does not allow same-sex marriage, they have come to develop their own definition of family and what it means to be in a committed relationship. This is an example of

a. relational culture/identity.

b. interfaith relationship.

c. sexual orientation.

d. intercultural praxis.

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Relationship Development Processes
Difficulty Level: Medium

15. A primary challenge of interracial romantic relationships is

a. the prejudices each member of the couple hold about each other.

b. the assumptions and prejudices held by society about interracial relationships.

c. the legal barriers to interracial relationships.

d. the inherent differences that are held by two different racial groups.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: PRIVILEGING RELATIONSHIPS: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Which of the following statements about intercultural relationships on the Internet is true?

a. Online dating is unaffected by racial stereotypes and hateful messages.

b. There are various Internet dating sites that challenge or reinforce racial stereotypes to a varying degree.

c. Online dating is likely to be more successful than traditional dating practices.

d. Internet dating sites proactively address and challenge racial stereotypes.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cyberspace and Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

17. As a bicultural, bilingual, and biracial child, Jose finds himself constantly translating, mediating, and navigating between his Italian American relatives and Mexican American relatives. What term best describes his intercultural experience?

a. Dialogue

b. Interracial relationships

c. Intercultural bridgework

d. Relational maintenance:

Learning Objective: 5-2: Explain how difference, power, privilege, and positionality are negotiated and transformed in intercultural relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Alliances for Social Justice in the Global Context
Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Sami and Dmitri have been friends for several years. They have introduced each other to their family members and trust each other as friends. At which stage of intercultural friendship development process are they?

a. Exploratory interaction phase

b. Ongoing involvement phase

c. Initial encounter phase

d. Racial awareness

Learning Objective: 5-2: Explain how difference, power, privilege, and positionality are negotiated and transformed in intercultural relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Relationship Development Processes
Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Which of the following is NOT one of Hofstede’s dimensions of culture that can help us understand intercultural communication in the workplace?

a. Individualism/collectivism

b. Low/high content

c. High/low power distance

d. Masculinity/femininity

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cultural Values in the Workplace
Difficulty Level: Easy

20. High uncertainty avoidance cultures tend to

a. be more formal and rule oriented.

b. be more informal and less structured.

c. encourage new and creative approaches.

d. be less formal and rule oriented.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Values in the Workplace
Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Nondominant groups marry into the dominant group for status.

Learning Objective: 5-2: Explain how difference, power, privilege, and positionality are negotiated and transformed in intercultural relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Intercultural Romantic Relationships Development
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Children from interracial marriages have psychological problems, particularly in terms of identity.

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Intercultural Romantic Relationships Development
Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Sexuality does not matter in intercultural relationships because ideas about femininity and masculinity are universal across cultures.

Learning Objective: 5-2: Explain how difference, power, privilege, and positionality are negotiated and transformed in intercultural relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexuality in Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Sexuality and sexual identities intersect with ethnic, racial, religious, and national cultural differences in intercultural relationships.

Learning Objective: 5-2: Explain how difference, power, privilege, and positionality are negotiated and transformed in intercultural relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexuality in Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Antimiscegenation laws existed in more than 40 states until 1967.

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: PRIVILEGING RELATIONSHIPS: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The notion of “friendship” varies across cultures because Western cultures typically have an individualistic orientation to friendship, where friendship is voluntary and chosen.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cultural Notions of Friendship
Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Cultural differences in the notion of friendship can be found in different views on how soon and how much one discloses about oneself to a friend.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cultural Notions of Friendship
Difficulty Level: Easy

8. People who initiate intercultural relationships are drawn to one another based on stereotypes toward one another’s groups.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Relationship Development Processes
Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Confucian dynamism is one of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions that emphasizes a balance between dominance and passive aggressiveness.

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cultural Values in the Workplace
Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Racework requires emotional work.

Learning Objective: 5-1: Identify the challenges and opportunities of intercultural relationships in workplace, friendship, romantic, and cyber contexts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Intercultural Romantic Relationships
Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. What is intercultural alliance and bridgework? Briefly explain and provide examples.

Learning Objective: 5-4: Explore how intercultural relationships in the global context are potential sites of alliances for social justice in the global context.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Alliances for Social Justice in the Global Context
Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Briefly discuss how intercultural praxis may be used to address the challenges in intercultural relationships.

Learning Objective: 5-4: Explore how intercultural relationships in the global context are potential sites of alliances for social justice in the global context.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intercultural Alliances for Social Justice in the Global Context
Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Briefly explain antimiscegenation laws. How does the history of antimiscegenation influence the way people develop romantic relationships today?

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: PRIVILEGING RELATIONSHIPS: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Do we live in a postracial society? Discuss your informed thoughts using examples.

Learning Objective: 5-3: Describe the impact of exclusion, prejudice, and myths on intercultural relationships, historically and today.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: PRIVILEGING RELATIONSHIPS: Intercultural Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Describe Interreligious or interfaith relationships, and using an example, explore the challenges inherent to these types of relationships.

Learning Objective: 5-2: Explain how difference, power, privilege, and positionality are negotiated and transformed in intercultural relationships.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Interreligious Intercultural Relationships
Difficulty Level: Hard