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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. What religious sect is referred to in "Novels and Children"?
(a) Unitarian Universalists.
(b) Sunni Muslims.
(c) Jesuits.
(d) Hasidic Jews.

2. What does the ship become in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?
(a) A true myth.
(b) A wandering vessel.
(c) A conscience for man.
(d) A traveling eye.

3. "Criticism must be neither a parlour game, nor a _____." How is this quote from "Neither-Nor Criticism" finished?
(a) Act of consciousness.
(b) Housewife chore.
(c) Deed of envy.
(d) Municipal service.

4. Which of the following is not one of the things the author says of steak in "Steak and Chips"?
(a) "A part of all the rhythms."
(b) "The bachelor's bohemian snack."
(c) "The comfortable bourgeois meal."
(d) "The reason there is supper."

5. According to the author, French toys always mean what?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Trouble.
(d) Something.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which popular cartoon character is mentioned in "Wine and Milk"?

2. Which two organizations are referred to in "Operation Margarine"?

3. Which of the following is not a "type" of man according to the author in "The Blue Guide"?

4. "______ for Schelling." How is this quote from "The Brain of Einstein finished"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. From reading "Ornamental Cookery," why would you say that Elle creates such a grandiose food section for a working-class readership?

2. What is the sexist irony of "Novels and Children"?

3. Why does the author speak ill of men as 'types' in "The Blue Guide"?

4. What is the literary device Verne created?

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

6. What is the opposite of "The Nautilus"?

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

8. How is drunkenness different in France than other nations?

9. Who is the writer discussed in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"? What is Barthes opinion of this writer's ambitions?

10. What image of wine does the author create in the beginning of "Wine and Milk"?

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