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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following do Rastafarians say is the strength behind their beliefs?
(a) Music.
(b) Voodoo.
(c) Righteousness.
(d) Dreadlocks.

2. Hebdige presents what type(s) of studies to cast doubt on the assumption that the development of many youth cultures makes the British youth a single class unto themselves?
(a) Scientific and observation based.
(b) Opinionated.
(c) Scientific-based only.
(d) Observation-based only.

3. According to Hebdige, subcultures serve the purpose of allowing individuals to do which of the following?
(a) Prove that the mass culture serves no purpose.
(b) Symbolically separate themselves from the mass culture.
(c) Overthrow the mass culture.
(d) Become a part of the mass culture.

4. What does Hebdige say is one of the things that "deconstructs rock music back to its more fundamental roots"?
(a) Continued racial tension.
(b) Class conflict.
(c) Establishment of country music.
(d) Glam rock's narcissism.

5. The manner in which the Rastafarian parents migrated did which of the following?
(a) Marked them as targets of discrimination.
(b) Showed they were successful business people.
(c) Demonstrated their hope for a bright future in a new land.
(d) Allowed them to easily conform to the cultural norms of their new home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hebdige says that style is resistance to what?

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

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

4. Chapter 2 begins by talking about the London heat wave of what year?

5. According to Hebdige, which is an underlying influence of the reggae subculture?

(see the answer key)

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