COMM 216 FINAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2026
Which of the following statements best describes a high context culture?
A) Society stresses approval of the outgroup.
B) People communicate using a restricted code.
C) Self-concept is consistent with public behavior
D) People are seen as interdependent with others.
E) Self-concept is consistent with public behavior - Answers - B) People communicate
using a restricted code.
Which of the following statements best describes a weak uncertainty avoidant culture?
A) Uncertainty is seen as a continuous threat.
B) Most of the population experiences communication apprehension.
C) Uncertainty is seen as a normal part of life.
D) Amish cultures
E) Few people experience communication apprehension. - Answers - C) Uncertainty is
seen as a normal part of life.
Individualism is linked to a sense of duty to group, interdependence, harmony, and
working with the group.
True or False? - Answers - False
People who are certainty oriented
A) undertake activity that maintains clarity.
B) undertake activity that is socially prescribed.
C) undertake activity that is hierarchically prescribed.
D) undertake activity that is ugly - Answers - A) undertake activity that maintains clarity.
In China, a dominant cultural value is filial piety (obedience to parents, respect for
parents, honoring of ancestors).
True or False? - Answers - True
The built environment consists mainly of
A) Fruits
B) Low load situations, including patterns.
C) The physical geography of the earth, including climate.
, D) High load situations, including randomness.
E) Adaptations to the terrestrial environment, including housing. - Answers - E)
Adaptations to the terrestrial environment, including housing.
An individual's vulnerability to a natural disaster is influenced by the social hierarchy
within which that individual exists. In this sense, natural disasters are as much social
phenomena as they are natural ones.
True or False? - Answers - True
Due to their lack of focus on time, people in a monchronic time oriented culture are
unable to tell time.
True or False? - Answers - False
People with a polychronic time (or P-time) orientation emphasize schedules--the
compartmentalization and segmentation of measurable units of time.
True or False? - Answers - False
Although the need for privacy is innate and universal, the degree to which an individual
human feels the need for seclusion varies considerably across cultures.
True or False? - Answers - True
People in polychronic time oriented cultures tend to wear Rolex watches whereas
people in monochronic time oriented cultures tend to wear Timex watches.
True or False? - Answers - False
Which list of terms best describes an environment with a high load?
A) Fast-paced and quick.
B) Certain, redundant, and probable.
C) Sluggish, slow, and lingering.
D) Crowded, immediate, and dense.
E) Certain, redundant, and probable. - Answers - D) Crowded, immediate, and dense.
Which list of terms best describes an environment with a low load?
A) Sluggish, slow, and lingering.
B) Fast-paced and quick.
C) Crowded, immediate, and dense.
D) Certain, redundant, and probable.
E) Correct answer
F) Sluggish, slow, and lingering. - Answers - C) Certain, redundant, and probable.
ANSWERS 2026
Which of the following statements best describes a high context culture?
A) Society stresses approval of the outgroup.
B) People communicate using a restricted code.
C) Self-concept is consistent with public behavior
D) People are seen as interdependent with others.
E) Self-concept is consistent with public behavior - Answers - B) People communicate
using a restricted code.
Which of the following statements best describes a weak uncertainty avoidant culture?
A) Uncertainty is seen as a continuous threat.
B) Most of the population experiences communication apprehension.
C) Uncertainty is seen as a normal part of life.
D) Amish cultures
E) Few people experience communication apprehension. - Answers - C) Uncertainty is
seen as a normal part of life.
Individualism is linked to a sense of duty to group, interdependence, harmony, and
working with the group.
True or False? - Answers - False
People who are certainty oriented
A) undertake activity that maintains clarity.
B) undertake activity that is socially prescribed.
C) undertake activity that is hierarchically prescribed.
D) undertake activity that is ugly - Answers - A) undertake activity that maintains clarity.
In China, a dominant cultural value is filial piety (obedience to parents, respect for
parents, honoring of ancestors).
True or False? - Answers - True
The built environment consists mainly of
A) Fruits
B) Low load situations, including patterns.
C) The physical geography of the earth, including climate.
, D) High load situations, including randomness.
E) Adaptations to the terrestrial environment, including housing. - Answers - E)
Adaptations to the terrestrial environment, including housing.
An individual's vulnerability to a natural disaster is influenced by the social hierarchy
within which that individual exists. In this sense, natural disasters are as much social
phenomena as they are natural ones.
True or False? - Answers - True
Due to their lack of focus on time, people in a monchronic time oriented culture are
unable to tell time.
True or False? - Answers - False
People with a polychronic time (or P-time) orientation emphasize schedules--the
compartmentalization and segmentation of measurable units of time.
True or False? - Answers - False
Although the need for privacy is innate and universal, the degree to which an individual
human feels the need for seclusion varies considerably across cultures.
True or False? - Answers - True
People in polychronic time oriented cultures tend to wear Rolex watches whereas
people in monochronic time oriented cultures tend to wear Timex watches.
True or False? - Answers - False
Which list of terms best describes an environment with a high load?
A) Fast-paced and quick.
B) Certain, redundant, and probable.
C) Sluggish, slow, and lingering.
D) Crowded, immediate, and dense.
E) Certain, redundant, and probable. - Answers - D) Crowded, immediate, and dense.
Which list of terms best describes an environment with a low load?
A) Sluggish, slow, and lingering.
B) Fast-paced and quick.
C) Crowded, immediate, and dense.
D) Certain, redundant, and probable.
E) Correct answer
F) Sluggish, slow, and lingering. - Answers - C) Certain, redundant, and probable.
