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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author describe how fast "the Jet-Man" travels?
(a) "Faster than light."
(b) "Faster than air."
(c) "Faster than speed."
(d) "Faster than sound."

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

3. How does the author refer to the magazine he writes of in "Ornamental Cooking"?
(a) "A highly valuable journal."
(b) "Pages that turn in parallel with the times in which we live."
(c) "Impossible recipes, absurd photographs."
(d) "A pompous collection of reviews."

4. "Republicans are always 'extremists' looting _____." Finish this quote from "The Blue Guide."
(a) Churches.
(b) Spain.
(c) Libraries.
(d) France.

5. What does the author argue takes precedence over the human life in "The Blue Guide"?
(a) Buildings.
(b) Cities.
(c) Monuments.
(d) Lakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is a writer's holiday different from another tradesman according to the author in "The Writer on Holiday"?

2. Which of the following is not a sign of apostleship in "The Iconography of Abbe Pierre"?

3. The author makes the statement that a wrestler is ________ "in broad daylight and in the sight of all"?

4. Finish the following statement from "Toys": "The adult Frenchman sees the child as ______."

5. Though the author says "Jet-Man," to what profession is it assumed he is referring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the authors ultimate issue with "The Blue Guide"?

2. In "Blind and Dumb Criticism," why would a critic admitting that he is not scholarly enough to comment appropriately on the work at hand be toxic to a culture?

3. What does the author compare Garbo's makeup to? What male personality is she compared to?

4. Why is it that the writer works on holiday important?

5. How does the author argue Einstein's brain is presented in popular culture?

6. How was Dominici convicted of his crime in "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature"?

7. What are "Toys," according to the author?

8. Why are the "Ornamental Cookery" images in Elle magazine put fourth in vain?

9. What are the two signs that are discussed in "The Romans in Films?" What do they suggest of Roman and modern culture?

10. What does the author note is the difference between cartoons and photographs of Einstein? What is the significance of Einstein being featured in cartoons?

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