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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following motivated punk?
(a) Jazz and classical.
(b) Blues and rock.
(c) Rock and reggae.
(d) Classical and techno.

2. Punk's motivating music types came together through which of the following to create Punk?
(a) Common experience and circumstance.
(b) Pomp and circumstance.
(c) Logic and circumstance.
(d) Common sense and logic.

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

4. What does Hebdige say is one of the things that "deconstructs rock music back to its more fundamental roots"?
(a) Glam rock's narcissism.
(b) Class conflict.
(c) Continued racial tension.
(d) Establishment of country music.

5. Which of the following describes a standard of the Glam subculture?
(a) Apoliticism.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Assurance.
(d) Apologetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Hebdige focuses on something and how it affects the definition of a subculture. What is it that he focuses on?

2. Hebdige presents what type(s) of studies to cast doubt on the assumption that the development of many youth cultures makes the British youth a single class unto themselves?

3. What does Hebdige say about post-war Britain with regard to mass media and how it defines cultural experience?

4. According to Hebdige, which is an underlying influence of the reggae subculture?

5. Reggae has origins in which of the following?

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