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Answer each multiple-choice question by placing a check mark in the box before it. Choose the one best answer; more than one may be correct. You have more than one minute per question.
1.
Foucault
believes that the facts of history will protect us from
q
repeating
mistakes
q
totalitarianism
q
deconstructionism
q
historicism
q
all
of the above
2.
The
following belief or intellectual construction was NOT listed by Leotard as a
principal feature of postmodernism:
q
High
and low culture are of equal value
q
Eurocentrism
is bad
q
Historicism is a must
q
“Objectivity”
is suspect
q
The
Real and the Artificial are hard to separate
3.
Bourdieu
wrote that rugby has something to do with
q
The
gender dimension in the class struggle
q
Historical
materialism
q
the gender dimension in struggles
between fractions of the dominant class
q
the
gendering of superstructure
q
governmentality
4.
Bourdieu
wrote that the working classes differ from the privileged in terms of their
q
Body
type
q
Ideological
relation to post-modernism
q
Attitude
to exercise for children
q
Relation to their own body
q
Assessment
of illness
5.
To
Benjamin, the following is an example of the political function of art:
q
The
Aztec world-renewing sacrifice
q
Restrictions
on moving art objects out of shrines
q
Art
collecting by powerful politicians
q
NGO
involvement in the circulation of art objects
q
Art galleries
6.
In
what way does Winston Smith's art qualify as "communist" versus
"fascist" art in Benjamin's terms?
q
It
makes politics artistic
q
It politicizes art
q
It
aims to restore the cult value of art … answers cont. on next page
q
It
destroys the cult value of art
q
It
destroys art’s aura
7.
Adorno
and Horkheimer thought that mass culture
q
takes away freedom from the
consumers
q
gives
a plentitude of meaningless choices to consumers
q
turns
consumers into right-wing voters
q
satisfies
the base instincts of consumers
q
creates
new needs among consumers
8.
Adorno
and Horkheimer thought that
q
Promises sex but does not deliver
q
Created
the star system in the service of big business
q
Substitutes
magic for the class struggle
q
Instituted
hegemony in the art of the cinema
q
Has
incorporated the popular quest for cult values
9.
Which
of the following makes Marxism a materialist philosophy
q
The
dialectic method
q
Its
rationalism
q
The distinction between base (substructure)
and superstructure
q
The
emphasis on revolution
q
Its
Hegelian heritage
10.
Hegemony
needs
q
Escape-proof
prisons
q
Religion
q
Intellectuals
q
The
young
q
Political
parties
11.
Thatcher
constructed a cultural order based on
q
Upper-class
values
q
Real
working-class values
q
Upper-middle
class values
q
Petty-bourgeois values
q
False
proletarian consciousness
12.
Stallybrass
and White discover the high/low contrast in
q
the
semiotics of the body;
q
the
psyche
q
buildings
q
society
q
all of the above
13.
What
are the characteristics of the carnivalesque?
q
Excess … answers cont. on next page
q
Grotesque
realism
q
Inversion
of social relations
q
Licentiousness
q
All of the above
14.
How
is the carnivalesque open rather than closed?
q
It
could last months
q
It
is an expression of the “body” of the entire people
q
It stresses orifices
q
It
focuses on body fluids
q
It
easily adapts to new cultural formations
15.
What
was the role of the referee and other officials in the episodes of wrestling
seen in class?
q
They
represented the audiences point of view
q
They
were needed to ensure that the match is regarded as illegitimate
q
They maintained the alibi of
legality
q
They
subtly directed events to make sure the audience gets what it expects
q
They
bridged wrestling, as entertainment, with the carnival
16.
Paris
Hilton’s behaviour calls into question
q
The
future of the bourgeoisie as ruling class
q
Contemporary
feminist readings of gender
q
The
possibility of revolution in the near future
q
The concept of the “carnivalesque
diaspora”
q
The
alleged resistance of the public to sexual displays
17.
To
Bakhtin, carnival is about liberation,
q
But Stallybrass and White disagree
q
And
Stallybrass and White wrote that it is about repression
q
And
Turner wrote that it is about repression
q
And
Turner wrote that it is about liminality
q
All
of the above
18.
The
socially marginal becomes, in society,
q
A
threat to liminality
q
The
crucible of political change
q
The
crucible of underclasses
q
Symbolically central
q
Symbolically
eliminated
19.
Rabelais
was a(n)
q
Carpenter
q
Welder
q
athlete
q
physician … answers cont. on next page
q
lens
maker
20.
Garnham’s
critique of cultural studies stresses the importance, as a theoretical concept,
of
q
Hegemony
q
Dialectics
q
Subcultures
q
False consciousness
q
Historicism
21.
What,
according to Williams, historically the first ads that used exaggerated praise
often advertised?
q
Brides
q
Perfume
q
Servants
q
Political
parties
q
Medicine
22.
The
several family trees that viewers of The Young and Restless know are an
example of
q
Alternative
historicism
q
Working-class
dialectics
q
Subaltern knowledge
q
The
politics of fantasy
q
The
relationship between social life and social theater
23.
Which
of the following is not one Appadurai’s “scapes”?
q
policescape
24.
Appadurai
believes that
q
Global
trends eliminate local differences
q
Globalization
will solve problems due to local conditions alone
q
Global
finance is more important that global politics
q
Global
policing is a necessary adjunct of global hegemony
q
Global trends create new local
realities
25.
What
does the "unifying discourse" that Bhabha critiques unify?
q
Nation
q
Social
class
q
Gender
q
Sexual
identities
q
Diasporic
identities