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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through American Icons: The Myth Characters of Popular Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the common definition of racial profiling?
(a) Cops using race to incarcerate people.
(b) Jury using race to determine the outcomes of criminal trials.
(c) Using race to determine who is subjected to surveillance or searches.
(d) Coaches using race to select student athletes.

2. When did Superman become a cultural icon?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1938.

3. Which fictional character was criticized as being homosexual?
(a) Spiderman.
(b) Batman.
(c) Batwoman.
(d) Superman.

4. According to the essay " The Gender Blur," by Deborah Blum, what is an example of nature?
(a) Boys playing with chemistry sets.
(b) Girls playing with Legos.
(c) Aggressiveness of boys.
(d) Meanness of girls.

5. 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 teenage image.
(d) Construction of American life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term gender refer to?

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

3. According to Rachel Bowlby, the author of "The Haunted Superstore, " what do people visiting a superstore not like?

4. Which sports are the leisure activities of the upper class, according to the textbook authors?

5. What does Vivian C. Sobchack claim in her essay "The Postmorbid Condition?"

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