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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of the following, which is a common activity that affects social behavior?
(a) Parenting.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Playing sports.
(d) Gardening.

4. What type of "rebellion" does Hebdige say subcultures are?
(a) Cultural.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Consensus.
(d) Controlled.

5. Where did the parents of the Rastafarians migrate to?
(a) China.
(b) America.
(c) London.
(d) Jamaica.

6. When referring to the philosophies of others, Hebdige discusses which type of conflict?
(a) Race.
(b) Class.
(c) Age.
(d) Gender.

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

8. What part of the black culture do the Hipsters closely associate with?
(a) Upward mobility of blacks.
(b) Poverty of the black people.
(c) The Hipsters share race-they are black.
(d) Religion.

9. Chapter 2 begins by talking about the London heat wave of what year?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1976.

10. What period in history does Hebdige focus on?
(a) Post-war Britain.
(b) Pre-war Britain.
(c) Edwardian era.
(d) Britain during the war.

11. Individuals who participate in subcultures invite which of the following into their lives?
(a) Backlash.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Love.
(d) Jealousy.

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

13. According to Hebdige, there is a disconnect between black sound and what?
(a) Black culture.
(b) White people.
(c) The mass culture.
(d) Other subcultures.

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

15. What did Jamaican slaves combine with the teachings of the Bible to form reggae?
(a) Oral traditions.
(b) Written traditions.
(c) Ideals from the mass culture.
(d) Nothing. They only utilized the teachings from the Bible to form reggae.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hebdige says that white subcultures are a response to what?

2. According to Hebdige, the mass culture mythologizes signification as a means of gaining which of the following?

3. In Chapter 5, Hebdige says mass media defines what?

4. Which of the following is NOT a "common object" mentioned by Hebdige in the last paragraph of Chapter 1?

5. What sparked the punk movement?

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