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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which sports are the leisure activities of the upper class, according to the textbook authors?
2. Who is Aunt Jemima as a cultural icon?
3. What is the real competition in sports, according to the textbook authors?
4. Which cultural icon's life is a rags to riches story, according to Mark Caldwell?
5. What is the main issue in "Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School," by Rina Swentzell?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Martha Stewart represent the culture of consumption, according to "The Assault on Martha Stewart," by Mark Caldwell?
2. What is the main argument made by the essay "Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier," by Laura Miller?
3. What is the Pueblo American Indian perception of space and its utilization? How does this conflict with the Euro American perception of space utilization?
4. What is a gender code?
5. How did the gender codes change with time? Give an example.
6. Why were women left out of college sports until the Title IX legislation was passed?
7. What are the conflicting values in the essay by Rina Swentzell, "Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School?"
8. What is overt racism? What is inferential racism?
9. What is theme marketing? Give two examples of businesses that do theme marketing.
10. What is the essay "Of Cholos and Surfers," by Jack Lopez, about?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain your perception of what the American dream is and what it means to you to be an American. Write a position paper on the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) people's rights to achieve the American dream.
Essay Topic 2
How does inferential racism and sexism affect student athletes? Taking black athletes--both men and women--as well as white women as examples, do a semiotic analysis of the image they project and its connection to inferential racism and sexism that is prevalent in the society.
Essay Topic 3
Many essays in the text book address the issues of American consumption and the role of corporations in consumption and promoting the concept of the American dream. However, in the event of a financial crisis, individual consumers are punished for not paying their credit card while corporations are bailed out. What should be the responsibility of the Government, the businesses, and the wealthy? Who should get the tax cuts and benefits and why?
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