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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 the second point the author makes of the science of semiology in "Myth as a Semiological System"?
(a) "Studies significations apart from their content."
(b) "Studies objects different from their implied affections in a culture."
(c) "Studies the separation of an object to its signification."
(d) "Studies the aspects of speech and meaning in a verbal object."

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) Probability.
(b) Exclamation.
(c) Implication.
(d) Deformation.

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

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

5. "A ____ decor complete with _____." How is this quote from Striptease finished?
(a) British, lilies.
(b) Chinese, bamboo.
(c) Roman, ivy.
(d) Venetian, gondola.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Myth as a Stolen Language," language cannot possibly be realistic or what?

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

3. Which of the following is not a significant unit or synthesis mentioned by the author in "Myth is a Type of Speech"?

4. The workers mentioned in "The Great Family of Men" of the Goutte d'Or are from where?

5. Which of the following is not a general prospect of the pseudo-physis of the dreams of the contemporary bourgeois world?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is "the inoculation"?

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

4. How do the ways that Marguerite and Armand feel love differ from one another in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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