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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. What does the essay "Disney World: Public Use/Private State," by Susan Willis, indicate?
(a) Disney World offers fantasy environment for children's use.
(b) Disney World offers programmed environment.
(c) Disney World offers fun environment for public use.
(d) Disney World offers fun and efficient environment for public use.

2. What does "I" signify, according to Fan Shen?
(a) It stands for the individualistic culture.
(b) English communication style.
(c) It stands for the identity.
(d) English language writing and communication.

3. What is the essay "Unnatural Selection" about?
(a) Use of steroids in sports to make a winning athlete.
(b) Use of computer engineering to create robotic sports.
(c) Use of gene selection to make a super female athlete who wins over the male counterpart.
(d) Use of genetic engineering in sports to make a super athlete.

4. Which of the following is true, according to Frank Deford?
(a) Many student athletes who turn professional are encouraged by their coaches to continue college.
(b) Student athletes have high graduation rates because of tutoring and support.
(c) Many student athletes who turn professional give up college education.
(d) Many student athletes are encouraged by their coaches to excel in academics.

5. Which sports are the leisure activities of the upper class, according to the textbook authors?
(a) Golf and sailing
(b) Golf and soccer.
(c) Boxing and baseball.
(d) Golf and football.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements is false?

2. Which game did become the American pastime, according to the textbook authors?

3. What is the most American thing that he did, according to Kevin Jennings, the author of "American Dreams?"

4. What does Malcolm Gladwell examine in "The Science of Shopping?"

5. Which sports are linked to the working class, according to the textbook authors?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is semiotics of sports crucial?

2. What is "New York's Most Disliked Building?" and why?

3. How does Barbie reinforce women's perception about perfect body image, according to "Our Barbies, Ourselves," by Emily Prager?

4. How does language mark women? Explain your point using an example.

5. What is the Pueblo American Indian perception of space and its utilization? How does this conflict with the Euro American perception of space utilization?

6. What are the gender codes for female athletes, as posited by Mariah Burton Nelson?

7. According to Engle, why did Superman become a superhero?

8. What is the Elvis effect, according to Paul C. Taylor?

9. How did the gender codes change with time? Give an example.

10. According to the essay "Boys--R- Us: Board Game and the Socialization of Young Adolescent Girls," by Jennifer Scanlon, what do gender specific toys and games teach children?

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