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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 does the author say the world supplies to myth in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?
2. In "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company," what is the characterization of an unchanging humanity?
3. Which of the following is not part of the function of a myth in "Myth is a Semiological System"?
4. Which of the following is not a general prospect of the pseudo-physis of the dreams of the contemporary bourgeois world?
5. As per the opening statement, "Striptease" emphasizes which city?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Marguerite only send the audience "to sleep" in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
2. How do the ways that Marguerite and Armand feel love differ from one another in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
3. What is "the inoculation"?
4. Why does the author say that poetry is ideal prey for myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
5. Does the author admit there are revolts against the bourgeois ideology in "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company"? What is it called?
6. How does the author suggest class and progressive humanism differ from one another in "The Great Family of Man"?
7. What does the author suggest is characteristic of myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
8. In "The Form and the Concept," how is it the author suggests the signifier of myth is presented?
9. How is plastic a "miraculous substance," according to the author in "Plastic"?
10. How is the woman in "Striptease" an object in disguise? What is the point of this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How can myths and communication be used unfairly? What examples of this are there from the book?
Essay Topic 2
How does modern culture create superficial notions in its art? What does this suggest of the world that creates this art? How is it different than art of the past?
Essay Topic 3
What was relevant of "The 'Blue Blood' Cruise?" How is the attitude of the royalty the same as the attitude of common people? What does this attitude say of the royalty who holds it? What does the connection between royalty and the common people because of this attitude suggest of humanity?
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