Gannon and Pillai, Understanding Global Cultures, Sixth Edition Instructor Resource
SECOND EXAM
There are 43 multiple choice questions, each worth 1.5 points. You can answer only 40 of these
multiple choice questions. If a student answers more than 40, he/she loses 1.5 points per each
additional question answered. On your green scantron, next to your name, please write the
numbers of the three questions you have left blank. Please select only two of the three essay
questions. Each of these two essay questions is worth 20 points. If you answer all three essay
questions, the third essay will not be graded. Please write your essays in ink, not pencil.
1. All of the following are pillars of Ireland’s culture except for:
2. The English leader who the Irish hated was:
3. In Malaysia “Dato” means:
5. The nation that explicitly incorporated the concept of a mosaic into its constitution to
define the nation’s perspective on ethnic groups is:
6. Power in French organizations tends to be:
7. The only sport in the world in which the offensive team gets together after each play is:
8. There are ______ major tribes in Nigeria (Note: The Hausa and Falana constitute one
9. The language considered by its citizens as the most beautiful and melodic in the world is:
10. The inability of Italians to keep thoughts, emotions, and even secrets to themselves is
called:
11. A nation that is typically characterized as having more rules and procedures that need to
be followed than all or most other nations is:
12. A nation that practices co-determination whereby every company with over 2000
employees has two boards of directors is:
13. Frederick the Great was from:
14. The English Statute officially making the Irish subordinate to the English and outlawing
marriage between them is called the Statute of:
15. The cultural metaphor used in the textbook for Canada is:
16. The nation that has a hexagonal image of itself is:
17. The nation in which an individual will tend to not smile when first introduced to someone
is:
18. The Arab word Dugry can be translated as:
19. ____________, a King in the 9th Century, ruled over large parts of Europe, and his sons
were willed large areas, with each son and his successors eventually forming a major European
nation. This King’s name was:
20. The Hari Raya is a religious festival of which of the religions below?
21. This largest demographic or ethnic group in Malaysia practices one of the religions
below. It is:
22. The primary identification that an individual in Nigeria has is with his:
23. The tribe that stresses egalitarianism and excels in business in Nigeria is:
24. According to research on MBA negotiations at Northwestern University, the MBAs from
____________ win the most in negotiations while leaving the other party most satisfied:
25. The schools in Ireland in which the Irish language was spoken, even though outlawed,
were called:
26. According to Erez’ research, the sector in Israel in which the most effective method of
decision making is delegative is:
27. The individual who stressed abstract thinking and the statement “I think, therefore I am”
came from:
28. The nation that has the most start-up high-technology business firms per capita is:
29. The nation in which the North and South evolved in radically different ways is:
30. Voice is a key feature of the cultural metaphor for one of the nations below. It is:
31. The marketplace is the cultural metaphor for:
32. According to Edward Hall’s low-context/high-context dimension of communication,
France:
33. A key feature of this nation’s cultural metaphor is maturation. This nation is:
34. Nigeria became a nation in 1960. Until that year it was ruled by:
35. The unique feature of the opera separating it from other musical forms is:
36. American football can be effectively compared or captured by the game of:
37. Robert Lipsyte described this sport as a church. This sport is:
38. The Festival of Lights is a(n) _______________ religious festival:
39. A sport emphasizing complex plays and a playbook describing them is:
40. One of the following nations is described in the book as a cleft national culture divided
sharply into three ethnic/religious groups. This nation is:
41. An animistic or nature-based religion that is the only native religion in its nation of origin
is:
42. As opposed to the British, the French system of logic could be described as:
43. The Great Irish famine occurred in the years:
ESSAY QUESTIONS
PLEASE NUMBER EACH QUESTION YOU ANSWER AND ANSWER ONLY TWO OF
THREE QUESTIONS.
1. What is Zionism, and in which geographical area of the world did it originate? How is it
related to the Israeli kibbutz or kibbutzim (plural)? How does the moshav differ from the
kibbutz? How important is the kibbutz in Israel today, and why? Also, describe the relationship
between the geography of Israel and the Israeli personality.
2. In class we had a discussion of the case “Carter Racing” which illustrated some important
points. When a decision maker is faced with a secure positive outcome of receiving $5,000
versus the option of playing in a lottery in which there is a 50% chance to win $10,000 and a
50% chance to lose everything, will he or she tend to select the first option or the second option?
Why? When he/she faces a situation in which there is a definite loss of $5,000 or an option of
playing in a lottery in which there is 50% chance of paying nothing and a 50% chance of paying
$10,000, which will he or she tend to choose? Why? Do you think that such cross-cultural
dimensions as individualism-collectivism and power distance would influence these statistical
tendencies? Why or why not?
3. Select only one of the cultural metaphors for one of the nations listed and describe two of
its major features: Germany, Ireland, Canada, France, the U.S., Malaysia, Nigeria, Israel, or
Italy. Why is it so important to define specifically the major features of a cultural metaphor?