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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. Which of the following is not an object mentioned in "The 'Blue Blood" Cruise"?
(a) No answers are correct.
(b) God-King.
(c) King-Object.
(d) God-People.

2. How old is the subject of the trial in "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature"?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty.

3. What does the author say culture will be opposed to in "Neither-Nor Criticism"?
(a) Race.
(b) Mass-productions.
(c) Elitists.
(d) Ideologies.

4. What writer does Barthes discuss the work of in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?
(a) Mary Shelley.
(b) Bram Stoker.
(c) Jules Verne.
(d) Herman Melville.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat," what are Nautilus and Drunken Boat to one another?

2. The author sees toys as doing what to children?

3. In "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat," what are most ships in legend of fiction?

4. "One is gifted for jet-flying as others are ____." How is this quote from "The Jet-Man" finished?

5. "Your ____ will be furious!" How is this quote from "Operation Margarine" finished?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the function of wrestling according to "The World of Wrestling?" What does the author contrast this to? Why is this the function of wrestling?

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

3. How does Abbe Pierre's haircut a juncture of meeting points and definitions?

4. "Hitch the greatness of the former to the triumph of the latter." To what does this quote from "Operation Margarine" apply?

5. How can bourgeois toys be be recognized?

6. What does the author say Garbo's beauty suggests of culture?

7. The evil that the author speaks of in "Operation Margarine," where else does he say it is present, beyond the Army and the Church? What example does he use?

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

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

10. How does the author introduce holidays in "The Writer on Holiday"?

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