Chapter 1: Obstacles to Cultural Competence & Cultural Humility: Understanding Resistance to Multicultural Training Test Questions Below are questions that can be used to test the students’ knowledge of the material covered in Chapter 1 of the 8th edition of Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice (CCD, Sue 8th edition). Questions are presented in various formats (True/False, Multiple Selection, Multiple Choice, Text Entry, and Essay Type). After each series of questions, you will find the correct answers along with accompanying explanations. Bloom’s taxonomy is provided to indicate the style of learning needed to answer the respective question. Additionally, you will also find a descriptor, EASY, MEDIUM, HARD, indicating the difficulty level of each question. Question 1 Question Type: True/False Question: The journey to becoming a competent culturally sensitive counselor in working with diverse populations is not complex as humans have innate characteristics that are relatively consistent across cultures with similar hopes and dreams that mark their humanness. Answer: False Solution: According to the authors, becoming culturally competent in working with diverse populations is a complex interaction of many dimensions that involves broad theoretical, conceptual, research, and practice issues. Moreover, the journey will be filled with obstacles to self-exploration, to understanding yourself as a racial/cultural being, and to understanding the worldview of those who differ from you in race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other sociodemographic characteristics. The subject matter in this book and course requires the reader to explore biases and prejudices, a task that often evokes defensiveness and resistance. Bloom’s Level: Comprehension Difficulty Level: EASY Question 2 Question Type: Multiple Selection Question: Becoming culturally competent in mental health practice demands that nested or embedded emotions be openly experienced in which of the following sociodemographic dimensions of difference? a. race