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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. Which of the following is not a significant unit or synthesis mentioned by the author in "Myth is a Type of Speech"?

2. Who is a producer of myths, as said in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?

3. What is one of the functions of myth in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?

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

5. In "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company," what is the characterization of an unchanging humanity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "the inoculation"?

2. What is semiology?

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why does the author believe cars have become the modern equivalent of Gothic cathedrals in "The New Citroen"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the media's responsibility to mythology? How do they shape/manipulate it? Is this able to be ignored? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the author's comments on East vs. West living.

Essay Topic 3

How can photography be used in elections? How are people manipulated through this process?

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