Discussion
This custom is characteristic ....... the Negros.
Answer: B
The right preposition is of: the custom is characteristic of that people.
The adjective characteristic takes of when it means 'typical of' or 'marking out' a person, group or thing: 'This is characteristic of his work', 'Such caution is characteristic of the elderly'.
For, in and to do not follow characteristic in this sense. The sentence comes from an old grammar-book exercise; whatever group it names, the preposition is fixed by the adjective.
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