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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hebdige say about SOME aspects of youth culture with respect to the parent culture?
(a) All youth culture reflects parent culture.
(b) There is no such thing as a youth culture and parent culture. Both the youth and parent exercise the traditions of one, the same culture.
(c) They no way reflect the parent culture.
(d) Parent culture reflects youth culture, not the other way around.

2. Skinheads obtain which of the following, to encourage a reputation of "manliness"?
(a) Sex.
(b) Motorcycles.
(c) Cropped hair.
(d) Drugs.

3. Hebdige describes subcultures as"mediation" between what?
(a) Experience and tradition.
(b) Opinions and facts.
(c) Ideas and truths.
(d) Lies and wishes.

4. To a certain extent, media shapes which of the following?
(a) Perception of societal taboos.
(b) Perception of social selfishness.
(c) Perception of social self.
(d) Perception of socioeconomic status.

5. The Rastafarian subculture says the "black sufferer" is placed where?
(a) London.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) Babylon.
(d) Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hebdige say about post-war Britain with regard to mass media and how it defines cultural experience?

2. According to Hebdige, social forces serve to do what?

3. According to Chapters 5, what do Punks absolutely NOT want to be associated with?

4. Of the Reggae subculture, Hebdige says it has strong, cultural what?

5. The STYLE between the Teddy Boys of the 50's and 70's is which of the following?

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