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WorksheetsLost Boys' Cultural Identity Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which cultural identity trait is NOT representative of Dinka culture?
Music and Dancing
Food
Language
Basketball
What values do the lost Boys hold?
Education, Community, family, faith, travel
Education, Community, family, faith, hard work
Community, family, faith, Farming, Education
Education, Community, family, faith, herding
Why did Peter leave Houston?
To take his driving test
To find a wider variety of job opportunities
To find a mate
To seek educational opportunities
Which problems did the Lost Boys encounter in their new housing situation?
the lost of ties to their culture
lack of job opportunities
problems associated with low income housing areas
inabilities to find reliable transportation
What questions do the Lost Boys have about the USA?
Technology questions
American cultural practices and food
Everyday financial transaction
how to get a driver's licence and automobile insurance
What challenges did the Lost Boys encounter?
Learning a new culture, figuring out how to get around the in the USA
Learning the ingredients in American hot dogs and cheeseburgers
Learning how to pursue an education and making new friends
Understanding the rules in American basketball
Which of the following is NOT an assimilation problem for the Lost Boys?
Playing Basketball
Clothing
Improvising English/adopting American slang
Holding hands in public/traveling in groups
Forming makeshift family groups, parliamentary governments in refugee camps, gathering with friends and attending reunions in the USA are all part of
Assimilation
Accluturation
Community-building strategies
Utilitarianism
The process of changing so that you become more like people from a different culture, or of making someone change in this way
Assimilation
Defamiliarization
Disassimilation
Acculturation
Santino is frustrated, and within months he heads for Kansas, where there are more opportunities.
This leads to one of the film's most heartbreaking moments, as the friendship between the two is strained beyond the breaking point. (Peter feels betrayed by Santino, who finds greater success in his new surroundings.)
True
False
What sense of responsibility do the Lost Boys feel toward each other and their families and their friends still in Africa?
The Lost Boys send food stuffs home in good will packages.
The Lost Boys often Snapchat and Skype with family and friends back home.
The Lost Boys send remittances to their girlfriends.
The Lost Boys send remittances to their families back home.
Why do the Lost Boys seek education?
To help those back home
To use their newly gained knowledge to go back home to help improve the lives of those left behind.
To make Mo' Money, Mo' Money, Mo' Money
To use their newly gained knowledge to go back home to flaunt their success in the faces of those who thought they would fail.
What action does Santino take after failing his first driving test?
Santino takes the bus home.
Santino calls Peter for a ride home.
Santino smiles, announces he failed the test, and gets into his car and drives away.
Santino proceeds to continue driving until he is incarcerated for running a red light, and driving without a licsence.
Two big obstacles to building relationships between Black Americans and Black Africans are: one, a fact of Black American poverty is crime, which Black Africans experience directly because they are usually resettled in poor, Black urban neighborhoods that are badly policed; and two, because of globalization Black Africans know more about Black Americans than Black Americans know about Black Africans.
False
True
Santino Majok Chuor is a perfect example of the kind of upward mobility that is accessible to black African immigrants. He retains his Africaness, socializes with suburban white teenagers in Kansas City, and deliberately attends a prosperous white high school. He is friendly to whites—who in turn are friendly to him. And it pays off - he completes high school and faces what is certainly a very bright future.
Mostly False because it was Peter not Santino who went to Arkansas.
Mostly False because it was Peter not Santino who went to Kansas.
Mostly true but it was Houston, Texas not Kansas City
Mostly False, because that is not Santino's complete name.
Northern Sudan is made up of which religion?
Hindu
Atheist
Christian
Muslim
What are all of the dangers the Lost Boys faced along their journey?
animal attack
malnutrition
disease
bad attitudes
boredom
Why did Southern Sudanese men wear bracelets?
So you would know what tribe they were in
In place a wearing a wedding ring
To show how stylish and manly they were
To represent how many lions they killed
All of the following were places the lost boys went except
ethiopia
Kenya
United States
Alaska
Challenges the Sudan boys faced in the USA include all of the following except
9/11 twin tower attack
winter and the cold weather
finding jobs
shark attack
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster is called
A migrant
An immigrant
An emmigrant
A refugee
The majority of Dinka practice traditional religions whose central theme is the worship of a high god through the totem, ancestral spirits, and a number of deities, however many converted to Islam in the United Nation Camps.
True
False
