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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. Of the following, which can be used as a symbol of style?
(a) Religion.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Make-up.
(d) Education.
2. What does Hebdige say could have caused the outbreak of violence between subcultures?
(a) Signification.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Suggestions.
3. Which of the following is a way of making subcultures understood by the masses?
(a) It is practiced by many more individuals and becomes the new dominant culture.
(b) The masses never seek to understand it.
(c) It is viewed as "incomprehensible."
(d) It is actively destroyed.
4. According to Chapter 9, a rocket jacket is which of the following qualities?
(a) Futuristic.
(b) Animalistic.
(c) Balistic.
(d) Ritualistic.
5. Where does Hebdige say objects begin?
(a) In the Rastafarian subculture.
(b) In the mass culture.
(c) In the Glam subculture.
(d) In the Mod subculture.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the media's purpose of depicting Punkers as "good kids"?
2. Which of the following states does Hebdige say "signification expresses ideas" in?
3. Of the following, which is defined as a "diverse set of signifiers which are likely to change from moment to moment"?
4. In Chapter 8, What does Hebdige say about subcultures?
5. In Chapter 9, what does Hebdige say style lacks?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hebdige conclude about style and how that may have been the cause of the tension between the 70's Teddy Boys and Punks?
2. What conclusion does Hebdige finally come to about style?
3. What factor of the white culture does George Jackson believe is an example of injustice to the black culture?
4. According to Hebdige, what are the two methods used to understand subcultures?
5. What is Hebdige's thought on Skinheads and how they portray a masculine outlook?
6. In Hebdige's words, what causes George Jackson to think the way he does about black cultures?
7. What does Hebdige say about the straightforward style?
8. After leaving a subculture, what is the difference between the cultural options for blacks and whites according to Hebdige?
9. In terms of its relation to the subculture, what does Hebdige say happens to the object's meaning once it goes back to the dominant culture?
10. How does Hebdige say the mass culture uses style?
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