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

2. How does "Myth as Stolen Language" conclude?
(a) "Ideology has its methods, and so has semiology."
(b) "The ideal of course would be to combine these two types of criticism."
(c) "The mistake which is constantly made is to confuse them."
(d) "One must deal with the writer's realism either as an ideological substance or as a semiological value."

3. "Myth is a type of speech chosen by ______." How is this quote finished?
(a) Science.
(b) Popular culture.
(c) Communicators.
(d) History.

4. What is the main character's name in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
(a) Marguerite.
(b) Jeanne.
(c) Lucille.
(d) Sophie.

5. What is the subject of the headline mentioned in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
(a) The price of vegetables.
(b) The change in language.
(c) The effects of war.
(d) The price of milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Myth on the Right," what does the bourgeoisie want to keep with the appearances?

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

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

4. In "The Form and the Concept" a complete image would do what to myth?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is semiology?

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why does the author say that poetry is ideal prey for myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?

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