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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the essay by Lucy Lippard, "Alternating Currents," describe?
(a) Alternative views of suburban living.
(b) Ambivalence of Americans toward the city and the country.
(c) Aletrnative views of country living.
(d) Alternating views that represent the city and the country.

2. What are the invisible signs of a building?
(a) Power and hierarchy they represent.
(b) Ideas of the architects who built them.
(c) Fun and frolic they may provide.
(d) Emotions and feelings they invoke.

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

4. What does "I" signify, according to Fan Shen?
(a) English language writing and communication.
(b) It stands for the identity.
(c) It stands for the individualistic culture.
(d) English communication style.

5. What is Michael Omi 's main point in his essay "In Living Color: Race and American Culture?'
(a) Stereotypical worldviews on race are perceived and depicted as social issues in popular culture.
(b) Stereotypical worldviews on race are perceived and depicted as a natural in popular culture.
(c) Views on race are depicted with political correctness by the popular culture.
(d) Race and minorities are positively depicted by the media.

6. Who is Aunt Jemima as a cultural icon?
(a) A trademark for breakfast foods.
(b) An African American woman model for pancake flour.
(c) An African American woman who owned a pancake flour company.
(d) An African American woman who was an expert cook.

7. How does Daphne Spain describe the workplace in the 90s in her essay "Spatial Segregation and Gender Stratification in the Workplace?"
(a) Most women had a work space that had doors.
(b) Most women had contact with men and participated in the decision making process.
(c) Women and men worked in segregated workspaces.
(d) Most women worked in the open spaces of offices.

8. What is the essay "A Patriot's Tale" about?
(a) New York firefighters.
(b) NFL New England Patriots.
(c) New York 9/11 survivors.
(d) New York 9/11 victims.

9. What does the essay "Disney World: Public Use/Private State," by Susan Willis, indicate?
(a) Disney World offers fun and efficient environment for public use.
(b) Disney World offers fantasy environment for children's use.
(c) Disney World offers programmed environment.
(d) Disney World offers fun environment for public use.

10. What does Personal space include?
(a) Visible and invisible signs that are dependent on identity, culture and relationship.
(b) Visible and invisible signs that are not dependent on identity, culture and relationship.
(c) Invisble signs that are not dependent on identity, culture and relationship.
(d) Visible signs that are dependent on identity, culture and relationship.

11. Which of the following statements is false?
(a) Animals have territorial boundaries.
(b) Men and women have territorial boundaries.
(c) Cultures have territorial boundaries.
(d) Children have territorial boundaries.

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

13. Where are the hottest items in a store located?
(a) Center of the store.
(b) Fifteen paces from the door.
(c) Close to the sales counter.
(d) Interior of the store.

14. What was the purpose of the builders of the world Trade Center, according to Eric Boehlert?
(a) Construct a symbol of American life.
(b) Build the greatest landmark in the world.
(c) Clean up the neighborhood and make money from the rentals.
(d) Build the highest landmark in New York.

15. What is the main issue in "Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School," by Rina Swentzell?
(a) Landscaping conflict between Santa Clara Pueblo Indians and the Day School.
(b) Cultural conflict between Euro American and American Indian perceptions about the utilization of school space.
(c) Conflicting values about landscape management between the Santa Clara Pueblo Indians and the Day School.
(d) Conflict between Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School about the utilization of school buildings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Michael Omi state that Americans commonly judge a person's character?

2. What is the latest example of the Elvis effect, according to Paul C. Taylor?

3. According to the textbook authors, which TV show had a protagonist(s) that became popular role models for American women?

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

5. According to the essay " The Gender Blur," by Deborah Blum, what is an example of nature?

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