Things Fall Apart Test

Question 1

Define Culture

Answer 1

The sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another.

Question 2

Define Xenophobia

Answer 2

An unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different.

Question 3

Give an example of Xenophobia

Answer 3

Jewish Holocaust
Slavery in America
Ku Klux Klan towards blacks
Native Americans by colonists

Question 4

Define Ethnocentrism

Answer 4

1. Sociology, the belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture.
2. A tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one’s own.

Question 5

Define Colonialism

Answer 5

1. The policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies, especially for exploitation.
2. European Idea.
3. One power controls dependent people.
4. Colonizers are convinced of their own superiority and their ordained mandate to rule.

Question 6

List 5 ways we see colonialism.

Answer 6

1. Control of Natural Resources
2. Imposed Government
3. Imposed Culture
4. Imposed Religion
5. Language (used for power)