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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 "Myth is a Stolen Language," what offers little resistance to robbery by myth"?
(a) General psychology.
(b) Popular culture.
(c) Articulated language.
(d) Cultural philosophy.

2. What is one of the best methods against myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
(a) Obstruct the acknowledging of a myths purpose.
(b) Produce an artificial myth.
(c) Write against the need for the myth.
(d) Study the particular myth's need to exist.

3. The workers mentioned in "The Great Family of Men" of the Goutte d'Or are from where?
(a) Northern Africa.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Paris.
(d) Lebanon.

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

5. What is a "regressive semiological system," according to "Myth is a Stolen Language"?
(a) 20th century film.
(b) Classical literature.
(c) Contemporary poetry.
(d) Modern art.

Short Answer Questions

1. The main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" cannot see herself as anything but "that of ornament in the museum of the _____." How is this quote finished?

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

3. What language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left"?

4. "Myth is not defined by _____." How is this quote from "Myth is a Type of Speech" finished?

5. Plastic is "ubiquity made ____." How is this quote from "Plastic" finished?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is "the inoculation"?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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