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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. In "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat," what are most ships in legend of fiction?
2. Who is "a fifty-year-old with an obese and sagging body"?
3. How does the author describe how fast "the Jet-Man" travels?
4. The author says that writer he discusses in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat" creates a world that needs only what to exist?
5. In "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat," the ship is an emblem of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. The evil that the author speaks of in "Operation Margarine," where else does he say it is present, beyond the Army and the Church? What example does he use?
2. What does the author compare Garbo's makeup to? What male personality is she compared to?
3. From reading "Ornamental Cookery," why would you say that Elle creates such a grandiose food section for a working-class readership?
4. How does the author argue Einstein's brain is presented in popular culture?
5. How is fairness apart of wrestling?
6. How is it assumed the author is referring to astronauts when he says "the Jet-Man"?
7. How is drunkenness different in France than other nations?
8. 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?
9. Why is it that the writer works on holiday important?
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
Compare and contrast the author's comments on East vs. West living.
Essay Topic 2
What is Einstein's role in our culture? What has changed about him as a myth since he died? How is he appreciated and what for? What are the two camps of regarding his thought process, according to the author?
Essay Topic 3
What journalism/literature devalues the human experience, according to the author? How and why do people let this happen?
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