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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Myth is a type of speech chosen by ______." How is this quote finished?
(a) Communicators.
(b) Popular culture.
(c) Science.
(d) History.

2. Myth is an inflexion, not what according to "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
(a) A lie nor a confession.
(b) An ability nor a reaction.
(c) A fact nor a reality.
(d) An attitude nor an opinion.

3. Which of the following is not part of the whole system of values for a myth in "The Form and the Concept"?
(a) A history.
(b) A geography.
(c) An audiology.
(d) A morality.

4. In "The Great Family of Men," what is "The Family of Men" the author discusses?
(a) A photography exhibit.
(b) A film.
(c) A painting.
(d) A book of photography.

5. According to the author in "The Great Family of Men," Nature is placed where?
(a) Throughout everything we experience.
(b) The beginning of Silence.
(c) Among the thresholds of humanity.
(d) The bottom of History.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final example in "Plastic" of the material's infringement on nature?

2. What is a "regressive semiological system," according to "Myth is a Stolen Language"?

3. "______, myth is on the right." How is this quote finished?

4. In "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company," what term does the author first examine?

5. Which of the following is not a Greek shepherd in "Plastic"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author say that poetry is ideal prey for myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?

2. How must one understand the term "political" in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?

3. What language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left?" Why?

4. How does the author suggest class and progressive humanism differ from one another in "The Great Family of Man"?

5. Why does the author believe cars have become the modern equivalent of Gothic cathedrals in "The New Citroen"?

6. What allows the reader of "Reading and Deciphering Myth" to consume myth innocently?

7. How is the woman in "Striptease" an object in disguise? What is the point of this?

8. How does the author suggest that myth seeks after him (or you or I) in "The Signification"?

9. In "Myth is a Type of Speech" what does the author say that myth is? What does he say that a form of speech is?

10. What is semiology?

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