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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Popular Spaces: Interpreting the Built Environment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Anne Norton, what does catalog shopping lead to?
(a) Construction of identities for men, women, and children.
(b) Construction of ideal life style.
(c) Construction of American life.
(d) Construction of teenage image.

2. What does Amanda Fazzone claim in her essay "Boob Tube?"
(a) Female TV actors and participants are rated for their sex appeal as well as their intelligence.
(b) TV shows focus too much on women's breasts and not on their talent.
(c) TV shows focus on women's glamour and not their sense of style.
(d) Female TV actors and participants are rated for their sex appeal and not for their brains.

3. What does Vivian C. Sobchack claim in her essay "The Postmorbid Condition?"
(a) Rather than sending a moral message on violence, current films ignore the impact.
(b) Rather than aestheticizing violence, current films send a moral message with it..
(c) Rather than aestheticizing violence, current films focus on it.
(d) Rather than aestheticizing violence, current films do not care about it.

4. Fill-in the blank. Visual cues in a shop are meant for the following shopper: __________.
(a) Shopper in a wheel chair.
(b) Slow walking shopper.
(c) Woman shopper.
(d) Fast walking shopper.

5. What does the essay"Sex, Lies, and Advertising" by Gloria Steinem examine?
(a) How the advertisements in women's magazines lie about sex.
(b) How advertisers target women's magazines to market cigarettes and feminine hygiene.
(c) The compromises made by women's magazines to retain advertisers.
(d) The articles published in women's magazines on advertisements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which movie does Michale Parenti use to make his arguments in the essay "Class and Virtue?"

2. What is the primary role of the market researcher?

3. Fill-in the blank. The analysis of a television episode must involve ___________ .

4. What does the metaphoric essay title, "Addictive Virus," refer to?

5. Fill-in the blank. Many advertisements connect the product with the __________.

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