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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In terms of style, what does supply drive?
(a) Demand.
(b) Significance of a subculture.
(c) Market.
(d) Style.

2. The STYLE between the Teddy Boys of the 50's and 70's is which of the following?
(a) Started out the same but ended differently.
(b) Same.
(c) Started out differently but ended the same.
(d) Different.

3. In Chapter 5, Hebdige says mass media defines what?
(a) Emotional attitude.
(b) Social expectations.
(c) Cultural experience.
(d) Cultural truths.

4. According to Hebdige, the mass culture mythologizes signification as a means of gaining which of the following?
(a) Attention.
(b) Control.
(c) Importance.
(d) More followers.

5. The Glam subculture addresses what question?
(a) Race and weight.
(b) Gender and sexuality.
(c) Religion and politics.
(d) Age and social class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sparked the punk movement?

2. What does Hebdige define as "a systemic, material language in which objects can be combined in infinite ways to produce meaning"?

3. When it comes to the objects of style, Hebdige is particularly interested in what?

4. Chapter 2 begins by talking about the London heat wave of what year?

5. Where are the parents of the Rastafarians from?

(see the answer key)

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