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

2. What types of clothing do Punkers generally like to wear?
(a) Symbols of sex.
(b) Symbols of education.
(c) Symbols of world peace.
(d) Symbols of religion.

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

4. What does Hebdige say is the next step after a subculture is ready to become a part of the "mass cultural consciousness"?
(a) Colonization.
(b) Culturalization.
(c) Combination.
(d) Commodification.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to style when it is no longer associated with a subculture?

3. Of the following, who does Hebdige say finds value in everything except for those things "signified by the hollow men of mass culture"?

4. Hebdige says subcultures are designed to address what?

5. With regard to viewing style as an art form, who's opinion does Hebdige quote?

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. How does Hebdige view the objects used by the Punk subculture to promote their subculture?

3. What does Hebdige say the general public's understanding of a subculture leads to?

4. What conclusion does Hebdige finally come to about style?

5. In your opinion, what is the overall message that Hebdige gets across by writing this book?

6. How does Hebdige say Punkers' desire to be different sometimes affects them?

7. How does Hebdige feel about the relationship of a common object's intended use and its actual use?

8. In your opinion, how does the content of this book affect present day society in America?

9. In Hebdige's words, what causes George Jackson to think the way he does about black cultures?

10. What factor of the white culture does George Jackson believe is an example of injustice to the black culture?

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