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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, Hebdige says mass media defines what?
(a) Cultural truths.
(b) Cultural experience.
(c) Emotional attitude.
(d) Social expectations.

2. The Glam subculture addresses what question?
(a) Age and social class.
(b) Race and weight.
(c) Religion and politics.
(d) Gender and sexuality.

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

4. According to Hebdige, social forces serve to do what?
(a) Damage the upper class.
(b) Build the working class.
(c) Damage the working class.
(d) Build the upper class.

5. What does Hebdige say is the next step after a subculture is ready to become a part of the "mass cultural consciousness"?
(a) Culturalization.
(b) Commodification.
(c) Combination.
(d) Colonization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 4 speaks about the Glams and their ideal of which of the following?

2. In the Punk subculture, when is commodification complete?

3. In terms of transforming from childhood to maturity, what is Hebdige not concerned with?

4. What did Jamaican slaves combine with the teachings of the Bible to form reggae?

5. When it comes to the objects of style, Hebdige is particularly interested in what?

(see the answer key)

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