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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1, Part 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not an industry compared to in "Toys"?
(a) The Army.
(b) Transport.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Hair Styling.

2. What other famous author does Barthes compare misunderstandings in language to in "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature"?
(a) Marquez.
(b) Kafka.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Ibsen.

3. Which Saint is the Abbe said to be dressed up as in "The Iconography of the Abbe Pierre"?
(a) Patrick.
(b) Peter.
(c) Francis.
(d) Luke.

4. The author says that writer he discusses in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat" creates a world that needs only what to exist?
(a) Ships.
(b) Itself.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Man.

5. What does the author say men could conceive of the heavens in "The Jet-Man"?
(a) Used for myths after astronomy.
(b) Full of celestial miscomprehension.
(c) Being populated with semi-objects.
(d) Laden of Martian and psychic matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author argue takes precedence over the human life in "The Blue Guide"?

2. Which of the following is not what the author argues convicted the defendant in "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature"?

3. What is the first sign of "The Romans in Films"?

4. Who does the author compare wrestlers to in the final paragraph of "The World of Wrestling"?

5. What does the ship become in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?

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