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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company," what is the characterization of an unchanging humanity?
2. The main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" cannot see herself as anything but "that of ornament in the museum of the _____." How is this quote finished?
3. Plastic is "ubiquity made ____." How is this quote from "Plastic" finished?
4. Who is a producer of myths, as said in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
5. What is the subject of the headline mentioned in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What allows the reader of "Reading and Deciphering Myth" to consume myth innocently?
2. In "The Form and the Concept," how is it the author suggests the signifier of myth is presented?
3. What language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left?" Why?
4. How does the author suggest that myth seeks after him (or you or I) in "The Signification"?
5. What is semiology?
6. What are the three ways in which one can understand the myth in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
7. 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?
8. How is plastic a "miraculous substance," according to the author in "Plastic"?
9. In myth, what is the tri-dimensional pattern described by the author in "Myth as a Semiological System?" What is the title the author gives to the system that existed before the myth?
10. Does the author admit there are revolts against the bourgeois ideology in "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company"? What is it called?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is beauty an important form of myth? How is it decided what beauty is? What examples from the book are there of this?
Essay Topic 2
How does modern culture create superficial notions in its art? What does this suggest of the world that creates this art? How is it different than art of the past?
Essay Topic 3
What does the author say of writers as figures? Do you agree or disagree? Is there anyone else who deserves the same consideration more than writers? Why or why not?
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