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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 language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left"?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Man as a hunter.
(c) Man as a producer.
(d) Man as storyteller.

2. Which of the following is not a significant unit or synthesis mentioned by the author in "Myth is a Type of Speech"?
(a) Discourse.
(b) Language.
(c) Speech.
(d) Linguistics.

3. What is an example of a class ritual in "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company"?
(a) Exotic holidays.
(b) A big wedding.
(c) Extravagant parties.
(d) Driving expensive automobiles.

4. "Myth is not defined by _____." How is this quote from "Myth is a Type of Speech" finished?
(a) "The object of its message."
(b) "The principles of its speech."
(c) "The subject its communicators."
(d) "The object of its meaning."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "regressive semiological system," according to "Myth is a Stolen Language"?

2. According to "The Form and the Concept" what is the second term of the system in Freud?

3. Which of the following is not part of the whole system of values for a myth in "The Form and the Concept"?

4. Mythology is a part of semiology in what way according to "Myth as a Semiological System"?

5. In "Reading and Deciphering Myth" causality creeps through the back door of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the author believe cars have become the modern equivalent of Gothic cathedrals in "The New Citroen"?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the author suggest that myth seeks after him (or you or I) in "The Signification"?

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