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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. Plastic is "ubiquity made ____." How is this quote from "Plastic" finished?
(a) Simple.
(b) Modern.
(c) Affordable.
(d) Visible.

2. "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) Deformation.
(c) Implication.
(d) Probability.

3. Which of the following is not part of the whole system of values for a myth in "The Form and the Concept"?
(a) An audiology.
(b) A geography.
(c) A morality.
(d) A history.

4. Myth is an inflexion, not what according to "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
(a) An attitude nor an opinion.
(b) An ability nor a reaction.
(c) A lie nor a confession.
(d) A fact nor a reality.

5. As per the opening statement, "Striptease" emphasizes which city?
(a) Nice.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Prague.

Short Answer Questions

1. Above all in "Myth on the Left," myth is what?

2. "Myth is not defined by _____." How is this quote from "Myth is a Type of Speech" finished?

3. What is the subject of the headline mentioned in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?

4. In "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company," what is the characterization of an unchanging humanity?

5. In "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company," what term does the author first examine?

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

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

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

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

6. What does the author suggest is characteristic of myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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