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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. What is the essay "A Patriot's Tale" about?

2. What was the cross-cultural issue faced by Feng Chen in his English composition class?

3. Which of the following statements is true, according to D. Staley Eitzen?

4. Why does Melissa Algranati describe her experience as "Being the Other?"

5. What does the essay "The Boys on the Bus," by Gary Smith, examine?

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 a gender code?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the common rationale given by the entertainment industry to exclude blacks from management positions, according to Michael Omi?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do news programs promote popular culture and the concept of the American dream? Support your arguments based on the semiotic analysis of a news telecast or a weekly news program.

Essay Topic 2

Both Camilo Jose´Vergara and Lucy Lippard examine the signs of city and urban landscape. Compare and contrast their views of the cities. How do you agree or disagree with their views?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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