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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. As per the opening statement, "Striptease" emphasizes which city?

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

3. What flowers does the author use to signify his passion in "Myth is a Semiological System"?

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

5. Which type of photograph "suggests the tyranny of an ideal" in "Photography and Electoral Appeal"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. What is "the inoculation"?

8. 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?

9. What is semiology?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What does the author say of critics? Who are critics to him and why are they relevant/irrelevant? What are the themes of the essays he writes specifically about critics? How are these essays similar/different to others in the book?

Essay Topic 3

How is love a myth and what are the examples of this in the book? Compare and contrast the different forms of love.

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