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

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

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

4. Who is famous for promoting Nike?
(a) Michael Jackson.
(b) Venus Williams.
(c) Michael Jordan.
(d) Kobe Bryant.

5. What is the point made by Michael A. Mesner in his essay on sports and gender relations?
(a) Sports shape masculine identity and reinforce the glamorous female identity.
(b) Sports shape masculine identity and reinforces male power.
(c) Sports shape masculine and feminine identity.
(d) Sports shape masculine identity and reinforce equity in gender relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Gender Role Behaviors and Attitudes," by Holly Devor, claim?

2. What does Bell Hooks write about in her essay "Baby?"

3. What is a birdcage mall?

4. Fill-in the blank. According to Naomi Wolf, the term beauty is ________.

5. According to Deborah Tannen, what message does a woman convey when she writes "Ms" before her name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the conflicting values in the essay by Rina Swentzell, "Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School?"

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

3. What is the key point made by Bell Hooks in her essay "Baby?"

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

5. Why is semiotics of sports crucial?

6. According to Engle, why did Superman become a superhero?

7. What does the semiotic reading of a show like Sex and the City reveal, according to the textbook authors?

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

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

10. What is a gender code?

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