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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Video Dreams: Television, Music, and Cultural Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, what is the TV show that is an example of the Schadenfreude phenomenon?
(a) Friends.
(b) Candid Camera.
(c) Seinfield.
(d) Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

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

3. What does Nina Leen's selection, "Just What Do You Do All Day?" showcase?
(a) What a student does on a school day.
(b) What a model does on a week day.
(c) What a housewife does around the house.
(d) What a teenager does on a weekend.

4. What does the term, semiotics, refer to?
(a) A writing process.
(b) Analysis of writing.
(c) Study of signs.
(d) Study of popular culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following products is cited by the authors as a cultural icon?

2. Who is the pioneer of Semiotics?

3. What does Susan Douglas examine in her essay"Signs of Intelligent Life on TV?"

4. Fill-in the blank. Semiotic method connects the _____________

5. Why is the Oprah Winfrey show popular, according to Steven D. Stark?

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