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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Plastic is "ubiquity made ____." How is this quote from "Plastic" finished?
(a) Modern.
(b) Simple.
(c) Affordable.
(d) Visible.

2. In "Myth is Depoliticized Speech," how does myth act in the passing from history to nature?
(a) Economically.
(b) Philosophically.
(c) Creatively.
(d) Scientifically.

3. How does "Myth as Stolen Language" conclude?
(a) "One must deal with the writer's realism either as an ideological substance or as a semiological value."
(b) "The mistake which is constantly made is to confuse them."
(c) "The ideal of course would be to combine these two types of criticism."
(d) "Ideology has its methods, and so has semiology."

4. In "The New Citroen" what is the modern equivalent of great Gothic cathedrals?
(a) Subways.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Skyscrapers.
(d) Cars.

5. "Myth is a type of speech chosen by ______." How is this quote finished?
(a) Popular culture.
(b) History.
(c) Science.
(d) Communicators.

6. Mythology is a part of ideology in what way according to "Myth is a Semiological System"?
(a) It is a historical science.
(b) It is regulated by the definitions of objects.
(c) It is nutritional for a culture.
(d) It is a physical science.

7. "The _____ of myth presents itself in an ambiguous way." How is this quote from "The Form and the Concept" finished?
(a) Creator.
(b) User.
(c) Speaker.
(d) Signifier.

8. What is the subject of the headline mentioned in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
(a) The price of vegetables.
(b) The price of milk.
(c) The change in language.
(d) The effects of war.

9. The workers mentioned in "The Great Family of Men" of the Goutte d'Or are from where?
(a) Northern Africa.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Paris.
(d) South Africa.

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

11. Which of the following is not part of the whole system of values for a myth in "The Form and the Concept"?
(a) A morality.
(b) A geography.
(c) An audiology.
(d) A history.

12. Which of the following is not a Greek shepherd in "Plastic"?
(a) Polyethylene.
(b) Polyvinyl.
(c) Polystyrene.
(d) Polyanthi.

13. What is a "regressive semiological system," according to "Myth is a Stolen Language"?
(a) 20th century film.
(b) Modern art.
(c) Classical literature.
(d) Contemporary poetry.

14. In "Myth is a Stolen Language," what is characteristic of myth?
(a) "To transform a meaning into form."
(b) "To create a meaning for an object."
(c) "To connect objects into form."
(d) "To transform a form into meaning."

15. In "Reading and Deciphering Myth," when the author distinguishes the meaning and the form by focusing on a full signifier, the French soldier becomes what?
(a) An alibi of French endurance.
(b) An alibi of French imperiality.
(c) An alibi of French attitude.
(d) An alibi of French struggle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the profession of the father of the male lover in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

3. What does the author say the world supplies to myth in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?

4. According to "Myth is a Type of Speech," myth is a system of what?

5. "______, myth is on the right." How is this quote finished?

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