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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. Plastic is "ubiquity made ____." How is this quote from "Plastic" finished?

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

3. In "The New Citroen" what is the modern equivalent of great Gothic cathedrals?

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

5. According to "The Form and the Concept" what is the second term of the system in Freud?

Short Essay Questions

1. What allows the reader of "Reading and Deciphering Myth" to consume myth innocently?

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

3. Does the author admit there are revolts against the bourgeois ideology in "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company"? What is it called?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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. How is the woman in "Striptease" an object in disguise? What is the point of this?

10. What is "the inoculation"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What does the author say of writers as figures? Do you agree or disagree? Is there anyone else who deserves the same consideration more than writers? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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

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