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Higher Education

Communication in Everyday Life: Chapter 4

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) the term used for characteristics we share with others who speak a common language
b) the term used for characteristics we share with others from the same or similar cultural backgrounds
c) the term used for characteristics we share with others from a particular country
d) the process of being absorbed into a larger group

Question 2:


a) the characteristics of our personal identity that we share with members of a larger group
b) one’s national identity
c) our historical self
d) a concealable stigmatized identity

Question 3:


a) male, female, asexual, undifferentiated
b) heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, pansexual
c) masculine, feminine, androgynous, undifferentiated
d) none of the above

Question 4:


a) personal identity
b) collective identity
c) historical self
d) stigmatized identity

Question 5:


a) who speak a common language
b) with a common ancestry
c) with respect to racial heritage
d) from the same or similar cultural backgrounds

Question 6:


a) impression management
b) the self-verification theory
c) hedging
d) ingratiation

Question 7:


a) active in impression management
b) socially present
c) hyperpersonal
d) a low self-monitor

Question 8:


a) Hyperpersonal theory
b) Social information processing theory
c) Social presence theory
d) Self-verification theory

Question 9:


a) only used in asynchronous communication
b) only used to express the historical self
c) graphic representations of facial expressions
d) verbal strategies to convey mood

Question 10:


a) synchronous communication theory
b) religious identity theory
c) self-verification theory
d) social presence theory

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False