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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 does Bell Hooks write about in her essay "Baby?"
(a) Her choice of a brown doll just like her.
(b) Her preference for a white doll.
(c) How she enjoyed playing with dolls.
(d) How she disliked the brown dolls.

2. What are the eligibility rules that are long over due, according to Frank Deford?
(a) Eligibility of women athletes to play professional sports.
(b) Eligibility to of student athletes to play college sports after leaving college.
(c) Eligibility of women student athletes to play college sports as professionals.
(d) Eligibility of student athletes to play college sports as professionals.

3. What is a territory?
(a) Space that acquires its meaning through someone's birth on it.
(b) Space that belongs to a nation.
(c) Space that belongs to aboriginal people.
(d) Space that acquires its meaning through someone's claim to it.

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

5. According to the textbook authors, why was the T.V. show Sex and the City popular?
(a) It showed beautiful women professionals.
(b) It is full of glamour and fun.
(c) It starred Sarah Jessica Parker.
(d) It challenged the gender codes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main point of the essay "The New Sexual Stone Age," by Andre Mayer?

2. Fill-in the blank. According to Camilo Jose Vergara in "The Ghetto Cityscape," green ghettos are ___________.

3. What is a birdcage mall?

4. What is the sign represented by cubicles in an office, according to Daphne Spain?

5. What is the most American thing that he did, according to Kevin Jennings, the author of "American Dreams?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is theme marketing? Give two examples of businesses that do theme marketing.

2. How does language mark women? Explain your point using an example.

3. Why does Jenny Lyn Bader think that role models may have better influence than mythical heroes?

4. What is the essay "Of Cholos and Surfers," by Jack Lopez, about?

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

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

7. How do toys reflect the changing culture and attitudes?

8. How do toys like Barbie teach consumption to kids, according to Gary Cross, author of "Barbie, G.I. Joe, and Play in the 1960s?"

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

10. How did baseball become a national pastime?

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