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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 is the profession of the father of the male lover in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
2. Plastic is "ubiquity made ____." How is this quote from "Plastic" finished?
3. What is the subject of the headline mentioned in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
4. "The relation which reunites the concept of the myth to its meaning is essentially a relation of ____." How is this quote from "The Form and the Concept" finished?
5. In "Reading and Deciphering Myth" causality creeps through the back door of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Marguerite only send the audience "to sleep" in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
2. What is semiology?
3. 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?
4. How does the author suggest class and progressive humanism differ from one another in "The Great Family of Man"?
5. How do the ways that Marguerite and Armand feel love differ from one another in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
6. 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?
7. What does the author suggest is characteristic of myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
8. Why does the author say that poetry is ideal prey for myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
9. Does the author admit there are revolts against the bourgeois ideology in "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company"? What is it called?
10. What allows the reader of "Reading and Deciphering Myth" to consume myth innocently?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the themes of Jules Verne. How does his writing mirror man's habits, processes and attitudes? How doesn't it?
Essay Topic 2
How is mythology vital to people? How is it vital to language? Why is mythology important to study?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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