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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of wrestling does the author define as portraying the ongoing battles between character types in, "The World of Wrestling"?

2. Which of the following is not a "type" of man according to the author in "The Blue Guide"?

3. What does the ship become in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?

4. The author argues that, ultimately, wrestlers are what?

5. What writer does Barthes discuss the work of in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is drunkenness different in France than other nations?

2. How does the author argue Einstein's brain is presented in popular culture?

3. What are "Toys," according to the author?

4. What is the literature of repletion in "Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature"? What does it lead to?

5. How is the opening claim in "Neither-Nor Criticism" that "criticism must be 'neither a parlour game, nor a municipal service'" affect the remainder of the article?

6. How is it assumed the author is referring to astronauts when he says "the Jet-Man"?

7. How can bourgeois toys be be recognized?

8. How is fairness apart of wrestling?

9. What is the significance of eating steak rare in "Steak and Chips"?

10. In "Blind and Dumb Criticism," why would a critic admitting that he is not scholarly enough to comment appropriately on the work at hand be toxic to a culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What myths/objects are nationalistic in French culture? Why are myths important to the French, specifically? How is the author eager to exemplify what is French and what is not in the book?

Essay Topic 2

What are the different ways to understand myth? Who decides how to do so and how?

Essay Topic 3

What does the author say of writers as figures? Do you agree or disagree? Is there anyone else who deserves the same consideration more than writers? Why or why not?

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