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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 "The Great Family of Men," what is "The Family of Men" the author discusses?
(a) A painting.
(b) A book of photography.
(c) A film.
(d) A photography exhibit.

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

3. According to "The Form and the Concept" what is the second term of the system in Freud?
(a) The latent meaning of the dream.
(b) The implied meaning of the myth.
(c) The latent meaning of the myth.
(d) The implied meaning of the dream.

4. In "Myth is Depoliticized Speech," how does myth act in the passing from history to nature?
(a) Philosophically.
(b) Economically.
(c) Scientifically.
(d) Creatively.

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. What is the main character's name in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

2. What is the main character's lover's name in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

3. Which of the following is not a Greek shepherd in "Plastic"?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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