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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hebdige states that which individual "fears that experience may fall prey to mythology, defined into non-existence"?
(a) George Jackson.
(b) Genet.
(c) Barthes.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

2. Hebdige says it is hard to clearly define the boundaries between what?
(a) Wants and needs.
(b) Subculture and mass culture.
(c) Reality and assumptions.
(d) Production and creative expression.

3. What does Hebdige say handicaps blacks?
(a) Racial prejudice.
(b) Nothing. They have the same opportunities as whites.
(c) Mental abilities.
(d) Economical capacity.

4. What method is used to facilitate the mass society's understanding of subcultures?
(a) It is "domesticated."
(b) The government enacts laws.
(c) The subculture becomes the dominant culture.
(d) There is a formal training about it.

5. In the Punk subculture, when is commodification complete?
(a) When objects of style perfectly match the subculture's aesthetic.
(b) It was complete just by the mere fact that the subculture was formed.
(c) It will not be complete until the Punk subculture is dissolved.
(d) When Punkers are able to recruit a large number to the subculture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hebdige says that Genet transformed from individual into what?

2. According to Chapter 6, subcultures usually involve transgressions of what?

3. Nuttal says that rocket jackets posses which of the following powers?

4. What does Hebdige say about the Punkers' style of dressing?

5. Hebdige says supply directly affects which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hebdige view the objects used by the Punk subculture to promote their subculture?

2. What does Hebdige say the general public's understanding of a subculture leads to?

3. At what point in the book did Hebdige come to his conclusion about style?

4. According to Hebdige, what is considered cultural "noise"? What does it mean?

5. How does Hebdige view a style of chaos and flux?

6. How does Nuttal feel about the rocker jacket?

7. Who does Hebdige say has a major affect on defining subcultures to the public?

8. What does Hebdige conclude about style and how that may have been the cause of the tension between the 70's Teddy Boys and Punks?

9. Does Hebdige believe recognizing style solely as an art within itself is the most accurate way of seeing it?

10. What does Hebdige say about the Punk subculture and how it outwardly expresses its views?

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