Cultural Studies: Practice Quiz

Cultural Studies
Practice Quiz
Dr Kalyani Vallath
Which of the following is not a book by
Raymond Williams?
A. Marxism and Literature

B. Communications
C. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
D. The Country and the City
They all are!

A Quiz from Kalyani Vallath
Which of the following is not a book by
Richard Hoggart?
A. The Uses of Literacy
B. Mass Media in Mass Society It’s D!
C. The Future of Broadcasting
D. Between Men: English
Literature and Male
Homosocial Desire

‘I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the
"obsolete" hand-loom weaver, the "utopian" artisan, and even the
deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous
condescension of posterity.’
This an oft quoted line from

A. Culture and Society
B. The Making of the English
Working Class
C. The Uses of Literacy
D. The Long Revolution
It’s B! A Quiz from Kalyani Vallath

‘But the idea of fundamental social process which shapes specific and
distinct ‘ways of life’ is the effective origin of the comparative social
science sense of ‘culture’ and its now necessary plural ‘cultures’.’
Who said this?
A. Raymond Williams
B. Richard Hoggart
C. Theodor Adorno
D. Antonio Gramsci
Raymond Williams
‘We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is
genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the
working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am
afraid this must be unlearned.’
Who said this?

A. Raymond Williams
B. Richard Hogarth
C. Theodor Adorno
D. Antonio Gramsci
Raymond Williams
‘Culture is one of the two or three most
complicated words in the English language.’
Where does Raymond Williams say this?

A. Communications
B. Keywords
C. Culture and Society
D. The Long Revolution
It’s B!
Which of the following is not an idea discussed
in Television: Technology and Cultural Form?
A. How television as a technology came
into existence
B. What aspects of culture deﬁne
television It’s D!
C. Countering Marshall McLuhan’s
concept of technological determinism
D. How television has changed in the age
of globalisation and the internet

__________ is a collection of essays by
Raymond Williams
A. Resources of Hope
B. Border Country
C. Loyalties
D. All of these
It’s A!
The work of the Birmingham School focused
on all these but
A. Working class youth populations

B. Communities of alternate sexuality
C. Television personalities
D. Audiences
It’s B!
The Open University of UK offered an
interdisciplinary course called U203 between
1982 and 1987. This was on
A. British Culture Studies

B. Counter Cultures
C. Television Studies
D. Popular Culture
It’s D!
The U203 course was directed by
A. E. P. Thompson
B. Raymond Williams
C. Tony Bennet
D. Stuart Hall
It’s C!

Which of the following is not an essay by Stuart
Hall?
A. Encoding and Decoding in the Television
Discourse
B. Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms
C. The Question of Cultural Identity
D. How Newness Enters the World:
Postmodern space, postcolonial times,
and the trials of cultural translation
It’s D!
In Stuart Hall’s discussion of Encoding/
Decoding, he uses the example of
A. Hollywood movies
B. Mall culture
C. Video games
D. Television news
It’s D!

Which of the following is not true about
culture studies?
A. All cultural forms are linked to institutions
and regulatory bodies
It’s B!
B. Cultural artifacts should be read primary
within the aesthetic realm
C. Culture studies engages in political
readings of various aspects of culture
D. Culture studies explores how certain
meanings are privileged at the cost of
others

Who of the following was not involved in the
project “Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of
the Sony Walkman”?
A. Stuart Hall It’s D!

B. Paul du Gay
C. Linda Janes
D. John Fiske

In which book did Pierre Bourdieu introduce
the term ‘cultural intermediaries’?
A. Distinction
B. Uprooting
C. The Inheritors
D. Counterﬁre
It’s A!
Who of the following has done pioneering
work on Dromology (the science on speed) in
the context of cyber culture?
A. Bruce Sterling It’s C!

B. Rosi Braidotti
C. Paul Virilio
D. Giorgio Agamben

The book ‘Is Science Multicultural?’, which
studies how human lives are affected by
technologies is written by
A. Sandra Harding It’s A!

B. Janet Todd
C. Angela McRobbie
D. Katherine Hayles

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Which of the author-work pairs is wrongly
matched?
A. Cary Wolfe - What is

Posthumanism?
B. Ulrich Beck - Risk Society
C. John Fiske - Reading the Popular
D. Manuel Castells - The Rise of the
Network Society
All are correct!!

Arjun Appadurai’s Modernity at Large is a
book on
A. Globalised consumer culture
B. Cultural dimensions of globalisation
C. How modernity failed
D. Public culture as corrupt
It’s B!

Which of the following is defined as “the
creation and incorporation of locality, processes
which themselves largely shape, in turn, the
compression of the world as a whole”?
A. Globalisation
B. Glocalisation
C. Cultural Hybridisation
D. Creation of Counter Culture
It’s B!
Who talked about taste as a distinctive aspect
of lifestyle and said “taste is manifested
preferences”?
A. Pierre Bourdieu
B. Raymond Williams
C. Edward Soja
D. Dick Hebdige
It’s A!
Who wrote the essay “Notes on the Perfect:
Competitive Femininity in Neoliberal Times”?
A. Carol Hanisch
B. Angela McRobbie
C. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
D. Susan Faludi
It’s B!
Cultural hybridisation or creolisation is a
process by which
A. Many cultures co-exist
B. Original cultures are replaced by new cultures
C. Foreign cultural artefacts get fresh values
D. New cultures are formed from old cultures
It’s C!

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Who of the following talked about a conflict or
disconnection between “the globalisation of
knowledge and the knowledge of gloablisation”?
A. Robin Cohen
B. William Safran
C. Arjun Appadurai
D. Roland Robertson
It’s C!
Who of the following is a not major figure in
studies of Popular Culture?
A. Janice Radway
B. Andrew Ross
C. Lawrence Grossberg
D. Lennard Davis
It’s D!
Who of the following is not a major critic in
Film Studies?
A. Richard Dyer
B. Andrew Sarris
C. David Bordwell
D. Michael Hardt
It’s D!

Who was the founding editor of The
International Journal of Cultural Studies
established in 1998 and published by Sage?
A. Raymond Williams
B. Paul Gilroy
C. Henry Jenkins
D. John Hartley
It’s D!
Which is the pathbreaking book written by the
Brazilian thinker Paulo Freire?
A. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
B. Theatre of the Oppressed
C. Education of the Oppressed
D. Literature of the Oppressed
It’s A!
Who of the following was written books on
transgressive education proposing an “engaged
pedagogy” involving anti colonial, feminist and
multicultural theory?
A. bell hooks
B. Stuart Hall
C. Pierre Bourdieu
D. Germaine Greer
It’s A!
Which of the following is not a book by bell
hooks?
A. Teaching to Transgress
B. Teaching Community: A
Pedagogy of Hope
C. Teaching Critical Thinking
D. Feminism is for Everybody
They all are!

Who of the following talked about symbolic
violence to refer to the ways in which dominant
classes impose ruling ideologies upon
dominated groups?
A. Pierre Bourdieu
B. Henri Lefebvre
C. Jurgen Habermas
D. Michel Foucault
It’s A!
Who propounded the idea of symptomatic
reading that accounts for the power/
knowledge relations in texts?
A. Louis Althusser
B. Michel Foucault
C. Edward Said
D. None of these
It’s A!
Compulsory able-bodiedness is concept
propounded by
A. Christopher Bell
B. Rosemarie Garland Thomson
C. Robert McRuer
D. Lennard Davis
It’s C!

The books Zeroes + Ones by Sadie Plant is
about
A. Digital women and technoculture
B. Impact of Hollywood movies on society
C. Globalisation and technoculture
D. Teen culture and internet
It’s A!

What, according to Edward Soja, is third
space?
A. Space as represented in images
B. Space as represented in maps
C. Space as represented in narratives
D. Real, lived space
It’s D!

What do you think of Cultural Studies?
A. It’s not easy, but fun

B. It seems to get better as I study more
C. It is helping me get a better
perspective on literature and
research
D. All of these

How did this quiz help you?
A. It made me realise that I can learn

Cultural Studies with some hard work
B. I now understand how diverse Cultural
Studies is
C. I am eager to apply these ideas in
actual research, if I get an opportunity
D. All of these

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Cultural Studies

A. Marxism and Literature

They all are!

A Quiz from Kalyani Vallath

This an oft quoted line from

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Who said this?

Who said this?

Where does Raymond Williams say this?

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A. Working class youth populations

A. British Culture Studies

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A. Stuart Hall It’s D!

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A. Bruce Sterling It’s C!

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A. Sandra Harding It’s A!

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A. Cary Wolfe - What is

All are correct!!

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They all are!

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A Quiz from Kalyani Vallath

A Quiz from Kalyani Vallath

A. It’s not easy, but fun

A Quiz from Kalyani Vallath

A. It made me realise that I can learn

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