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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, Part 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the associated social status of the referenced actor in "The Poor and the Proletariat"?
(a) Middle class.
(b) Working class and poor.
(c) Working class.
(d) Poor.

2. What does the author claim is wine's power in "Wine and Milk"?
(a) Relaxes only to restore.
(b) Surrends the good of one for the benefit of all.
(c) Gives life to objects that use it properly.
(d) Extracts opposites from objects.

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

4. What is the second point the author makes of the science of semiology in "Myth as a Semiological System"?
(a) "Studies the separation of an object to its signification."
(b) "Studies objects different from their implied affections in a culture."
(c) "Studies the aspects of speech and meaning in a verbal object."
(d) "Studies significations apart from their content."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mythology is a part of semiology in what way according to "Myth as a Semiological System"?

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

3. In "Steak and Chips," the author compares steak to what?

4. Above all in "Myth on the Left," myth is what?

5. According to the author, French toys always mean what?

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