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Question #1
Ferdinand de Saussure used the term "signified" to refer to:
A.   The word itself.
B.   A word's meaning.
C.   The object or concept the word refers to.
D.   All of these answers
Question #2
US cultural critic bell hooks deals with popular cultural images because:
A.   She is convinced that representations are meaningful.
B.   All of these answers
C.   She believes students can understand theory when it is related to examples from popular culture.
D.   Because she wants to help students think critically about their lives.
Question #3
Edward Said's concept of "Orientalism":
A.   Has nothing to do with current world affairs.
B.   Has to do with how people from Western culture (i.e., Europe and the US) view those from the Near East and Far East.
C.   All of these answers.
D.   Has to do with how people from the Near and Far East view people from Western culture.
Question #4
The term "bipolar opposition" is used to refer to a linked pair of concepts:
A.   All of these answers
B.   In which both concepts are considered absolutes.
C.   In which the concepts are in conflict.
D.   In which one is valued over the other.
Question #5
The male/female bipolar opposition is considered "the primary opposition within western metaphysics."
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #6
Becoming visually literate means:
A.   developing a critical awareness of mass media images
B.   understanding the intended, evolving and received meanings of images
C.   all of these answers
D.   being able to understand, interpret and evaluate the significance of images in our lives.
Question #7
The site that marks the transition from an oral tradition to a pictographic writing tradition is
A.   Ancient Greece
B.   Ancient Africa
C.   Ancient Iraq
Question #8
Native art connects the natural world with
A.   the community
B.   none of these answers
C.   the individual
D.   all of these answers
E.   the spiritual
Question #9
The relationship between the Signifier and the Signified is NEVER
A.   natural
B.   arbitrary
C.   determined by culture
D.   all of these answers
Question #10
Binary opposites contribute to establishing stereotypes:
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE

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