Subculture, the Meaning of Style Test | Final Test - Easy

Dick Hebdige
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Subculture, the Meaning of Style Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hebdige begins the book by citing the ideas of what author?
(a) George Jackson.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Barthes.
(d) Genet.

2. Which of the following is defined as "presenting a single, coherent identity"?
(a) Subculture style.
(b) Straightforward style.
(c) Backwards style.
(d) Style of chaos and flux.

3. In Chapter 9, what does Hebdige say style lacks?
(a) Purpose.
(b) Timelessness.
(c) Definition.
(d) Common sense.

4. Hebdige says supply directly affects which of the following?
(a) Production.
(b) Violence.
(c) Norms of the mass culture.
(d) Cultural change within a society.

5. What does Hebdige say is an attribute of style?
(a) Its unique nature.
(b) Its cyclical nature.
(c) Its misunderstood nature.
(d) Its non-cyclical nature.

6. Where does Hebdige say objects begin?
(a) In the mass culture.
(b) In the Rastafarian subculture.
(c) In the Mod subculture.
(d) In the Glam subculture.

7. 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) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Genet.
(c) George Jackson.
(d) Barthes.

8. What does Hebdige say could have caused the outbreak of violence between subcultures?
(a) Signification.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Suggestions.

9. In Chapter 6, how does Hebdige describe the idea of subcultures?
(a) As a cultural nuisance.
(b) As a cultural necessity.
(c) As cultural noise.
(d) As a cultural no-no.

10. Punks are known for embracing which of the following?
(a) Peace and harmony.
(b) Sexual puritanism.
(c) Strong tie to Britain's history.
(d) Ganja.

11. Of the following, which is defined as a "diverse set of signifiers which are likely to change from moment to moment"?
(a) Backwards style.
(b) Straightforward style.
(c) Style of chaos and flux.
(d) Subculture style.

12. Which of the following is a way of making subcultures understood by the masses?
(a) It is viewed as "incomprehensible."
(b) It is actively destroyed.
(c) It is practiced by many more individuals and becomes the new dominant culture.
(d) The masses never seek to understand it.

13. Which of the following is another word for "science of the concrete"?
(a) Norms.
(b) Bricolage.
(c) Expression.
(d) Physics.

14. What does Genet say about George Jackson's letters?
(a) They are written with pleasant words.
(b) They contain a lot of pictures.
(c) They are difficult to read.
(d) They are extremely long.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer's beliefs about style most closely resembles those of Hebdige?

2. Of the following, who is an imprisoned writer?

3. Which of the following represents a product style?

4. How does George Jackson view the language used by the mass culture?

5. According to Chapter 8, what do Skinheads use to represent their principle of masculinity?

(see the answer keys)

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