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Human Diversity in Education Book Cover
Human Diversity in Education: An Integrative Approach, 4/e
Kenneth H. Cushner, Kent State University, Kent
Averil McClelland, Kent State University, Kent
Philip Safford, Case Western Reserve University

Intercultural Development: Considering the Growth of Self and Others

Multiple Choice



1

Two physical criteria used to define one's racial identity are:
A)Skin color and shared language
B)Skin color and facial features
C)Customs and shared language
D)Skin color and shared history
2

In an adaptation of Cross's racial identity model, Spring proposes that an individual goes through the following five stages as he/she internalizes a positive Black identity:
A)Birth, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational
B)Trust versus mistrust, industry versus inferiority, identity versus role confusion, and intimacy versus isolation
C)Pre-encounter, encounter, immersion-emersion, immersion and internalization
D)Ethnic psychological captivity, ethnic encapsulation, ethnic identity clarification, multiethnicity
3

In Banks's model of ethnic development, when individuals are in the globalism stage:
A)They are able to clarify their own cultural identity.
B)They reflect positive ethnic, national, and global identities.
C)They are engaged in global economic activities.
D)They are less than happy about the new global economy.
4

Schools are good places to begin progress toward the goal of developing global competencies because:
A)Students of many different backgrounds are likely to be found there.
B)Teachers want to be members of a global community.
C)School boards believe such competencies will help them pass levies.
D)Principals and parents are enthusiastic about such goals.
5

One argument for instituting multicultural education programs is:
A)There is funding for them.
B)The melting pot didn't work.
C)All teachers are enthusiastic about them.
D)The government insists that they be implemented.
6

Multicultural education programs that focus on communication and self-esteem are categorized by Sleeter and Grant as:
A)inclusive multicultural education
B)education that is multicultural and social reconstructionist
C)human relations
D)teaching the culturally different
7

In the Mitchell Typology, models of cultural competence focus on all of the following, except:
A)They promote appreciation of other groups.
B)They do not focus on one's own cultural identity.
C)They assert that all students should be "at home" in more than one cultural group.
D)They insist that members of minority groups be fluent in the dominant culture.
8

Which of the following is not a skill associated with intercultural competence?
A)the ability to respond to others in a nonjudgmental way
B)the ability to propose more than one interpretation of behavior
C)the ability to learn a second language
D)the ability to promote effective intercultural interaction
9

Which of the following characteristics reflects the DMIS stage of Defense?
A)inability to see cultural differences
B)ability to recognize cultural differences but denigration of most
C)acceptance of superficial cultural differences
D)ability to recognize and accept cultural differences on their own terms
10

The following statements describe Acceptance, the first of the ethnorelative stages of the DMIS, except:
A)Acceptance represents an individual's ability to interpret phenomena within a cultural context.
B)Acceptance represents an individual's ability to analyze interactions in culture-contrast terms.
C)Acceptance represents an individual's ability to seek out cultural difference.
D)Acceptance represents an individual's ability to accept, respond, and agree with cultural differences.