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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Constructing Race: Readings in Multicultural Semiotics.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Michael Omi 's main point in his essay "In Living Color: Race and American Culture?'
(a) Views on race are depicted with political correctness by the popular culture.
(b) Race and minorities are positively depicted by the media.
(c) Stereotypical worldviews on race are perceived and depicted as social issues in popular culture.
(d) Stereotypical worldviews on race are perceived and depicted as a natural in popular culture.
2. What does the essay"Sex, Lies, and Advertising" by Gloria Steinem examine?
(a) How the advertisements in women's magazines lie about sex.
(b) The articles published in women's magazines on advertisements.
(c) How advertisers target women's magazines to market cigarettes and feminine hygiene.
(d) The compromises made by women's magazines to retain advertisers.
3. What is the name of the movie cited by the authors of the Text book as one of the most popular films of 2001?
(a) Pearl Harbor.
(b) Shrek.
(c) Jurassic Park III.
(d) The Princess Diaries.
4. What does the essay "Braveheart, Babe and the Contemporary Body" by Susan Bordo examine?
(a) Just do it culture and the media message.
(b) Women's bodyimage issues and their courage.
(c) Women's bodyimages issues and the advertsing cultural norms.
(d) Just do it culture and women's courage in dealing with the cultural norms.
5. What is LynNell Hancock's "The Haves and the Have-Nots" about?
(a) It examines the growing gap between America's rich and the poor.
(b) It examines the global inequities in wealth.
(c) It examines how consumption divides the haves and have-nots.
(d) It examines the digital gap and its connection to race.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do ads usually portray men?
2. What message does the phenomenon, Democracy of Goods, refer to?
3. Which movie does Michale Parenti use to make his arguments in the essay "Class and Virtue?"
4. What are some motivators typically used in ads?
5. Fill-in the blank. Many advertisements connect the product with the __________.
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