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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Constructing Race: Readings in Multicultural Semiotics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is LynNell Hancock's "The Haves and the Have-Nots" about?
(a) It examines the growing gap between America's rich and the poor.
(b) It examines the digital gap and its connection to race.
(c) It examines how consumption divides the haves and have-nots.
(d) It examines the global inequities in wealth.

2. What does Vivian C. Sobchack claim in her essay "The Postmorbid Condition?"
(a) Rather than aestheticizing violence, current films focus on it.
(b) Rather than aestheticizing violence, current films do not care about it.
(c) Rather than aestheticizing violence, current films send a moral message with it..
(d) Rather than sending a moral message on violence, current films ignore the impact.

3. What does the phrase "Commodification of desire" refer to?
(a) Connecting the product with a desire to be rich.
(b) Connecting the product with fulfilling the American dream.
(c) Connecting the product with an unrelated desire
(d) Connecting the product with a desire to fit in.

4. What is the common definition of racial profiling?
(a) Cops using race to incarcerate people.
(b) Coaches using race to select student athletes.
(c) Jury using race to determine the outcomes of criminal trials.
(d) Using race to determine who is subjected to surveillance or searches.

5. What is digital gap?
(a) Gap between the haves and have-nots in their access to digital communication.
(b) Gap between the haves and have-nots in their access to computers and the Internet.
(c) Gap between the haves and have-nots in their access to iPods.
(d) Gap between the haves and have-nots in their access to cellphones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main purpose of advertisers?

2. Which movie does Michale Parenti use to make his arguments in the essay "Class and Virtue?"

3. According to Benjamin DeMott, how does Hollywood portray the race relations between blacks and whites?

4. What is the essay, "Creating the Myth" about?

5. What was the cross-cultural issue faced by Feng Chen in his English composition class?

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