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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 4, what does the black culture lose as it spreads into the world?
(a) Color.
(b) Context.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Connotation.

2. What does Hebdige say about post-war Britain with regard to mass media and how it defines cultural experience?
(a) "It shares images and ideals across age and gender."
(b) "It shares sound and images across race and culture."
(c) "It shares sound and images across class and culture."
(d) It shares truths and sound across age and race."

3. Where are the parents of the Rastafarians from?
(a) West Indies.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Israel.
(d) Egypt.

4. What does Hebdige say about SOME aspects of youth culture with respect to the parent culture?
(a) All youth culture reflects parent culture.
(b) They no way reflect the parent culture.
(c) There is no such thing as a youth culture and parent culture. Both the youth and parent exercise the traditions of one, the same culture.
(d) Parent culture reflects youth culture, not the other way around.

5. Which of the following is NOT a "common object" mentioned by Hebdige in the last paragraph of Chapter 1?
(a) Pointed shoes.
(b) Vaseline.
(c) Safety pin.
(d) Apple.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Reggae has origins in which of the following?

3. Why do the Beats and Hipsters embrace aspects of the black culture?

4. Which of the following is a way that "powerless teenagers" can feel like they are "socially significant"?

5. When Hebdige talks about style, which of the following is true?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the history of the blacks from the West Indies compared to the post-war British youth?

2. Besides the experience of slavery, what other elements were used to create Reggae?

3. How do the Rastafarians modify the Christian religion?

4. Does Hebdige believe the subculture participants' view of its subculture is the only determining factor in how it is viewed by the outside?

5. According to Hebdige, what affect does the Glam subculture have on someone looking in from the outside?

6. Why did the parents of the Rastafarians face such harsh discrimination when they came to London?

7. According to Chapter 3, what is the main difference between the subcultures of Reggae and Rastafarians?

8. In Hebdige's opinion, are subcultures a form of cultural rebellion?

9. How does Hebdige feel about common objects when in the hands of the dominant culture as opposed to being in the hands of a subculture?

10. Does Hebdige agree with the idea that all subcultures are lumped into one "class"?

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