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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main thing Hebdige is trying to understand about subcultures?
(a) Their religious context.
(b) Their emotional context.
(c) Their spiritual context.
(d) Their historical context.

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

3. How does Hebdige define the purpose of style?
(a) It is "to disconnect familiar signs to old signifiers."
(b) It is "to connect unfamiliar signs to old signifiers."
(c) It is "to disconnect familiar signs to new signifiers."
(d) It is "to connect familiar signs to new signifiers."

4. Which of the following does Hebdige say has been neglected?
(a) Subculture relations.
(b) International relations.
(c) Political relations.
(d) Race relations.

5. According to Chapters 5, what do Punks absolutely NOT want to be associated with?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Conformity.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Traditionalism.

6. In order to understand punk, one must understand which of the following?
(a) The origins of other subcultures.
(b) The direction in which other subcultures are going.
(c) The direction in which it is going.
(d) Its origins.

7. Individuals' conduct in society is greatly influenced by which?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Bankers.
(c) Firemen and women.
(d) Police.

8. What music style developed as a result of the black immigration?
(a) Techno.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Top 40.
(d) Heavy Metal.

9. What happened to the people of London as the heat intensified?
(a) Nothing. The heat wave did not affect them.
(b) The masses died.
(c) The people went from being annoyed to being violent.
(d) The people migrated to Dublin, Ireland.

10. The Glam subculture primarily consisted of which of the following?
(a) Blacks and Whites.
(b) Whites.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Skinheads who want to break away from the Skinhead subculture.

11. In Chapter 4, how do the Teddy Boys feel about life?
(a) Doomed.
(b) Charismatic.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Satisfied.

12. Which of the following is a way that "powerless teenagers" can feel like they are "socially significant"?
(a) Join a subculture.
(b) Follow the rules of the mass culture.
(c) Defy gravity.
(d) Engage in violence.

13. 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) Opinionated.
(b) Scientific-based only.
(c) Observation-based only.
(d) Scientific and observation based.

14. Reggae has origins in which of the following?
(a) Post-war Britain.
(b) America.
(c) Pre-war Britain.
(d) West Indies.

15. Hebdige says that style is resistance to what?
(a) Spiritual forces.
(b) Religious forces.
(c) Emotional forces.
(d) Social forces.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hebdige says that individuals understand ideology in which of the following ways?

3. The actions of people are many times persuaded by what?

4. Which of the following describes a standard of the Glam subculture?

5. Punk's motivating music types came together through which of the following to create Punk?

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