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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which writer's beliefs about style most closely resembles those of Hebdige?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Genet.
(c) George Jackson.
(d) Barthes.

2. Of the following, who does Hebdige say finds value in everything except for those things "signified by the hollow men of mass culture"?
(a) Genet.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Barthes.
(d) George Jackson.

3. What does George Jackson complain about?
(a) The general struggle between subcultures and the dominant culture.
(b) The notion that blacks are forced to speak using the Master's tongue, and therefore experience the undermining of their plight.
(c) The fact that he is a white man who has not been warmly accepted into black subcultures.
(d) The lack of style in the dominant culture.

4. The mass culture is associated with several aesthetics. According to Hebdige, which is an example?
(a) Attractiveness.
(b) Writings.
(c) Music.
(d) Food.

5. What method is used to facilitate the mass society's understanding of subcultures?
(a) There is a formal training about it.
(b) It is "domesticated."
(c) The government enacts laws.
(d) The subculture becomes the dominant culture.

6. Hebdige says it is hard to clearly define the boundaries between what?
(a) Wants and needs.
(b) Production and creative expression.
(c) Reality and assumptions.
(d) Subculture and mass culture.

7. According to Hebdige, which of the following is true about style?
(a) It is the entire system.
(b) It is the creator of the system.
(c) It is only part of a system.
(d) Has no relationship to the system.

8. What is one of the common objects of the dominant culture mentioned that takes on a new meaning when used by a subculture?
(a) Car.
(b) Brush.
(c) Pair of shoes.
(d) Comb.

9. What individual does the following quote reflect upon, ". . . lives a life of diversion, subversion and dissent, concerned less with what the signs say than in how their meaning might be changed"?
(a) George Jackson.
(b) Genet.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Barthes.

10. In Chapter 7, Hebdige focuses on something and how it affects the definition of a subculture. What is it that he focuses on?
(a) Socioeconomical status.
(b) Level of education.
(c) Religious preference.
(d) Style.

11. Hebdige says that style can be be identified through which of the following?
(a) Political stance.
(b) Ancestry.
(c) Family.
(d) Accessories.

12. What happens to style when it is no longer associated with a subculture?
(a) It becomes commodified.
(b) It becomes codified.
(c) It becomes modified.
(d) It becomes solidified.

13. Many times, members of the Punk subculture wear clothing that exude what?
(a) Heavily beaded material.
(b) Brightly-colored images.
(c) Sensitivity to the differences of others.
(d) Offensiveness.

14. According to Chapter 9, a rocket jacket is which of the following qualities?
(a) Balistic.
(b) Ritualistic.
(c) Animalistic.
(d) Futuristic.

15. What does Hebdige say style articulates between the dominant culture and subcultures?
(a) Noise.
(b) Harmony.
(c) The need for subcultures.
(d) The need for the dominant culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. For its aesthetic qualities, Hebdige says that style might be what?

2. Which of the following states does Hebdige say "signification expresses ideas" in?

3. Of the following, which can be used as a symbol of style?

4. Hebdige says the relationship between which of the following is NOT a constant?

5. What does Hebdige say could have caused the outbreak of violence between subcultures?

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