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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 is one of the functions of myth in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?
(a) Use objects.
(b) Talk about objects.
(c) Deny objects.
(d) Create objects.

2. "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."

3. The author says that the main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" sends the audience to where?
(a) Analyze.
(b) Adjust.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Think.

4. What flowers does the author use to signify his passion in "Myth is a Semiological System"?
(a) Roses.
(b) Daisies.
(c) Lilies.
(d) Orchids.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which type of photograph "suggests the tyranny of an ideal" in "Photography and Electoral Appeal"?

3. The author says that the main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" lives in the awareness of what?

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

5. In "Myth is a Stolen Language," what is characteristic of myth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What is semiology?

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