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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an example of personal space code?
(a) Taking a bus ride.
(b) Hugging your friend.
(c) Riding a bike.
(d) Walking on the street.

2. What is LynNell Hancock's "The Haves and the Have-Nots" about?
(a) It examines how consumption divides the haves and have-nots.
(b) It examines the digital gap and its connection to race.
(c) It examines the global inequities in wealth.
(d) It examines the growing gap between America's rich and the poor.

3. What is the sign represented by cubicles in an office, according to Daphne Spain?
(a) Employee culture.
(b) Corporate structure.
(c) Open communication.
(d) Cooperative working.

4. Fill-in the blank. According to Camilo Jose Vergara in "The Ghetto Cityscape," green ghettos are ___________.
(a) Inner city areas that are reclaimed by nature because of neglect or abandonment.
(b) Inner city areas that provide car less commute to the residents.
(c) Inner city area public housing projects that focus on environmental justice.
(d) Inner city area public housing projects that are increasingly focusing on green living.

5. What does the essay "Put on a Happy Face: Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites" point out?
(a) Race relations have been revealed and depicted by Hollywood as controversial.
(b) Racism has been depicted by Hollywood as a controversial issue.
(c) Real issues faced by blacks have been concealed or misrepresented by Hollywood.
(d) Real issues faced by blacks have been revealed and depicted by Hollywood.

6. According to Andy Medhurst, what does Batman symbolize?
(a) Transgender man.
(b) Masculinity.
(c) White heterosexual man.
(d) Gay man.

7. According to Michael Omi, how are blacks often portrayed by the American media?
(a) Important and professional.
(b) Important but sly.
(c) Comical, submissive, or childlike.
(d) Protagonist warrior.

8. Fill-in the blank. According to Naomi Wolf, the term beauty is ________.
(a) A status myth.
(b) An identity myth.
(c) A cultural myth.
(d) A sales myth.

9. Why does Melissa Algranati describe her experience as "Being the Other?"
(a) She is African American.
(b) She is is American Jew.
(c) She is Puerto Rican Egyptian Jew.
(d) She is Egyptian American Jew.

10. What does wrestler Henry Jenkins posit about the message of wrestling?
(a) The only way to be upwardly mobile is to learn wrestling and earn big money.
(b) It is manly is to learn wrestling and earn big money.
(c) It is manly is to build muscle and wrestle.
(d) The only way to be upwardly mobile is to stomp on those in one's way.

11. What is the most American thing that he did, according to Kevin Jennings, the author of "American Dreams?"
(a) Achieving his American dream of a great job and comfortable life.
(b) Accepting his identity as a gay man.
(c) Achieving his American dream by becoming a home owner.
(d) Accepting the equality of men and women.

12. Fill-in the blank. The rules for sports changed over time because _______________.
(a) People started taking sports seriously.
(b) More people started watching sports on weekends.
(c) More people started watching sports.
(d) Sports became a form of entertainment on television.

13. What is the real competition in sports, according to the textbook authors?
(a) Competition for money.
(b) Competition for athletes.
(c) Competition for markets.
(d) Competition for TV time.

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

15. What does American soccer mainly focus on, according to David Kamp in "America's Spaz-Time?"
(a) Soccer moms and their time with children.
(b) Fun over competition.
(c) Winning and big money.
(d) Competition over fun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill-in the blank. Gender coding is _________.

2. Who is Aunt Jemima as a cultural icon?

3. Who is one of the best and most world famous American cultural icons, according to Michael Eric Dyson?

4. What is an example of gender code?

5. Who expressed concern about a comic hero's sexual orientation?

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