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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 animal the lion will not share his hunted food with in "The Form and the Concept."
(a) A cow.
(b) A sheep.
(c) A heifer.
(d) A goat.

2. What is the second point the author makes of the science of semiology in "Myth as a Semiological System"?
(a) "Studies the separation of an object to its signification."
(b) "Studies significations apart from their content."
(c) "Studies the aspects of speech and meaning in a verbal object."
(d) "Studies objects different from their implied affections in a culture."

3. 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 imperiality.
(b) An alibi of French struggle.
(c) An alibi of French attitude.
(d) An alibi of French endurance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Myth is a Type of Speech," the author claims that myth is a form. Which of the following is NOT something he says must be assigned to this form?

2. Which of the following is not part of the function of a myth in "Myth is a Semiological System"?

3. In "Myth is Depoliticized Speech," how does myth act in the passing from history to nature?

4. In "The New Citroen" what is the modern equivalent of great Gothic cathedrals?

5. The author says that the main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" sends the audience to where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author suggest class and progressive humanism differ from one another in "The Great Family of Man"?

2. What is semiology?

3. Why does Marguerite only send the audience "to sleep" in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

4. How must one understand the term "political" in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Why does the author say that poetry is ideal prey for myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?

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

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