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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. In "Reading and Deciphering Myth" the author says the saluting soldier used as a reference in other sections is an example of what?
(a) French imperiality.
(b) French attitude.
(c) French endurance.
(d) French struggle.

2. Which of the following is not a general prospect of the pseudo-physis of the dreams of the contemporary bourgeois world?
(a) Importance of opinion.
(b) Identification.
(c) Tautology.
(d) The statement of fact.

3. In "Myth is a Stolen Language," what is characteristic of myth?
(a) "To transform a meaning into form."
(b) "To connect objects into form."
(c) "To create a meaning for an object."
(d) "To transform a form into meaning."

4. "The _____ of myth presents itself in an ambiguous way." How is this quote from "The Form and the Concept" finished?
(a) Creator.
(b) User.
(c) Speaker.
(d) Signifier.

5. "______, myth is on the right." How is this quote finished?
(a) Statistically.
(b) Essentially.
(c) Usually.
(d) Rarely.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mythology is a part of ideology in what way according to "Myth is a Semiological System"?

2. What is the profession of the father of the male lover in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

3. What is the final example in "Plastic" of the material's infringement on nature?

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

5. What is the first point the author makes of the science of semiology in "Myth as a Semiological System"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "the inoculation"?

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

3. What is semiology?

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

5. 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?

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. 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?

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

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

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