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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. Above all in "Myth on the Left," myth is what?
(a) Unchangeable.
(b) Poverty-stricken.
(c) A facade.
(d) Evolutionary to the needs of society.

2. 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 effects of war.
(d) The change in language.

3. "The relation which reunites the concept of the myth to its meaning is essentially a relation of ____." How is this quote from "The Form and the Concept" finished?
(a) Exclamation.
(b) Implication.
(c) Deformation.
(d) Probability.

4. According to "The Form and the Concept" what is the second term of the system in Freud?
(a) The implied meaning of the myth.
(b) The latent meaning of the dream.
(c) The implied meaning of the dream.
(d) The latent meaning of the myth.

5. According to "Myth as a Stolen Language," language cannot possibly be realistic or what?
(a) Used.
(b) Changed.
(c) Avoided.
(d) Unrealistic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Myth is a Type of Speech" what happens to certain objects that become prey to mythical speech?

3. "The spiritualization can be seen in the extent, the quality and the material of the _____." How is this quote from "The New Citroen" finished?

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

5. Which of the following is not a significant unit or synthesis mentioned by the author in "Myth is a Type of Speech"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the woman in "Striptease" an object in disguise? What is the point of this?

2. How is plastic a "miraculous substance," according to the author in "Plastic"?

3. Does the author admit there are revolts against the bourgeois ideology in "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company"? What is it called?

4. In myth, what is the tri-dimensional pattern described by the author in "Myth as a Semiological System?" What is the title the author gives to the system that existed before the myth?

5. What allows the reader of "Reading and Deciphering Myth" to consume myth innocently?

6. In "Myth is a Type of Speech" what does the author say that myth is? What does he say that a form of speech is?

7. What are the three ways in which one can understand the myth in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?

8. In "The Form and the Concept," how is it the author suggests the signifier of myth is presented?

9. What is history's role concerning myth as a type of speech, according to "Myth is a Type of Speech"?

10. What language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left?" Why?

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