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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What American mixture does the author perplex over in "Wine and Milk"?
(a) Milk and chocolate.
(b) Wine and juice.
(c) Milk and pomegranate.
(d) Water and cucumber.

2. "Chips are ____ and ____ like steak." How is this quote finished from "Steak and Chips"?
(a) Beloved, hand made.
(b) Nostalgic, patriotic.
(c) Relevant, imperative.
(d) Delicious, earned.

3. What sort of reality does the author say of inventiveness in "Ornamental Cooking"?
(a) "Harsh."
(b) "Fairy-land."
(c) "Make believe."
(d) "Intricate."

4. "Criticism must be neither a parlour game, nor a _____." How is this quote from "Neither-Nor Criticism" finished?
(a) Municipal service.
(b) Housewife chore.
(c) Act of consciousness.
(d) Deed of envy.

5. What food is made with margarine in the advertisement referenced by the author in "Operation Margarine"?
(a) Strawberry pie.
(b) A mousse.
(c) Chocolate cake.
(d) Croissants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What passion of children does Barthes compare the themes of the discussed author to in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?

2. The author says that the main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" lives in the awareness of what?

3. According to the author in "Neither-Nor Criticism," which of the following isn't "heavy, defective words"?

4. What does the author say the readers of the magazine he speaks of are entitled to in "Ornamental Cooking"?

5. "The relation which reunites the concept of the myth to its meaning is essentially a relation of ____." How is this quote from "The Form and the Concept" finished?

(see the answer key)

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