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Assimilation is
 
  a. an effort by elites to define individuals as falling into different identity groups and to make such divisions politically relevant.
  b. a government response to identity diversity that forces a minority group to abandon its cultural characteristics and take on those of the majority group.
  c. a strategy of a minority group to gain acceptance by the dominant cultural group by adopting some of that group's behavioral norms.
  d. a government response to identity diversity that involves a degree of cultural autonomy and extensive rights or privileges for members of a minority group.
  e. a government response to identity diversity in which a minority receives territorial autonomy in exchange for not pursuing complete independence.

Question 2

Situations in which group identity boundaries do not coincide with one another are called
 
  a. complementary identity divisions.
  b. primordial.
  c. civic nationalism.
  d. ethno-federalism.
  e. cross-cutting social cleavages.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

E



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