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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. Which of the following is not a general prospect of the pseudo-physis of the dreams of the contemporary bourgeois world?
(a) Tautology.
(b) The statement of fact.
(c) Identification.
(d) Importance of opinion.

2. Which of the following is not part of the function of a myth in "Myth is a Semiological System"?
(a) "It makes us understand something."
(b) "It points out and it notifies."
(c) "It imposes it on us."
(d) "It defines something as meaningful."

3. The author sees toys as doing what to children?
(a) Conditioning.
(b) Inspiring.
(c) Helping.
(d) Spoiling.

4. "One is gifted for jet-flying as others are ____." How is this quote from "The Jet-Man" finished?
(a) Able to teach.
(b) Called to God.
(c) Brought to write.
(d) Urged to nurse.

5. What river is referenced in the first sentence of "The Writer on Holiday?"
(a) Amazon.
(b) Congo.
(c) Thames.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a phrase used to describe Einstein or his brain in "The Brain of Einstein"?

2. In "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat," the ship is a symbol of what?

3. How old is the subject of the trial in "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature"?

4. How is the following quote from "The World of Wrestling" finished: "the virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of _____."

5. Who is a producer of myths, as said in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?

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