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1
Choir, band, and football are examples of student microcultures within the school that form around interests and/or skills.
A)True
B)False
2
Teachers hold relatively high status in the social system of the school district.
A)True
B)False
3
Teachers in American schools are overwhelmingly female and white.
A)True
B)False
4
If teachers are to serve as cultural mediators, it is not particularly important that they be knowledgeable about the role of culture in teaching and learning.
A)True
B)False
5
In the hostility phase of the U-curve hypothesis, one is often disconcerted by disconfirmed expectations.
A)True
B)False
6
Reshaping one's cultural identity may take as long as six months.
A)True
B)False
7
Acculturation is the process by which individuals change as a result of continuous firsthand contact with individuals of other cultures.
A)True
B)False
8
Indigenous peoples are characterized by a low degree of mobility and a low degree of voluntary contact with others.
A)True
B)False
9
Models of cross-cultural interaction are designed to assist newcomers to a society in assimilating into that society.
A)True
B)False
10
Ethnic groups have much in common, but a shared history is not one of those commonalities.
A)True
B)False





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