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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an example of a gender specific game cited by the author Jennifer Scanlon?
(a) Loaded Questions.
(b) High School Musical.
(c) Sweet Valley High.
(d) Clue.

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

3. Which of the following is true, according to Frank Deford?
(a) Student athletes have high graduation rates because of tutoring and support.
(b) Many student athletes who turn professional give up college education.
(c) Many student athletes who turn professional are encouraged by their coaches to continue college.
(d) Many student athletes are encouraged by their coaches to excel in academics.

4. Why do many boys join sports, according to David Kamp?
(a) It nurtures their needs for popularity and the opportunity for recognition.
(b) It nurtures their needs for competition and they want the contact it offers them with their male peers.
(c) It nurtures their needs for competition and gives the opportunity for becoming popular.
(d) It nurtures their needs for popularity and the opportunity for becoming famous.

5. What is digital gap?
(a) Gap between the haves and have-nots in their access to computers and the Internet.
(b) Gap between the haves and have-nots in their access to iPods.
(c) Gap between the haves and have-nots in their access to cellphones.
(d) Gap between the haves and have-nots in their access to digital communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of the builders of the world Trade Center, according to Eric Boehlert?

2. Fill-in the blank. Melissa Algranati is __________.

3. Fill-in the blank. The rules for sports changed over time because _______________.

4. Which sports are linked to the working class, according to the textbook authors?

5. Who is the cultural icon for American sliving in style, according to Mark Caldwell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is semiotics of sports crucial?

2. How did the gender codes change with time? Give an example.

3. What is "New York's Most Disliked Building?" and why?

4. What is the main point made by Lucy Lippard in her essay "The Alternating Currents?"

5. What is the Pueblo American Indian perception of space and its utilization? How does this conflict with the Euro American perception of space utilization?

6. What is a gender code?

7. What is the Elvis effect, according to Paul C. Taylor?

8. What are the gender codes for female athletes, as posited by Mariah Burton Nelson?

9. What is the main argument made by the essay "Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier," by Laura Miller?

10. What is the main argument of the essay "Athletics 101: A Change in Eligibility Rules is Long Overdue," by Frank Deford?

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