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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. Myth is an inflexion, not what according to "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
3. What is the main character's name in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
4. According to "Myth is a Type of Speech," myth is a system of what?
5. What is the final example in "Plastic" of the material's infringement on nature?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is plastic a "miraculous substance," according to the author in "Plastic"?
2. What allows the reader of "Reading and Deciphering Myth" to consume myth innocently?
3. What does the author suggest is characteristic of myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
4. How is the woman in "Striptease" an object in disguise? What is the point of this?
5. How does the author suggest class and progressive humanism differ from one another in "The Great Family of Man"?
6. How does the author suggest that myth seeks after him (or you or I) in "The Signification"?
7. How do the ways that Marguerite and Armand feel love differ from one another in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
8. In "The Form and the Concept," how is it the author suggests the signifier of myth is presented?
9. Why does the author believe cars have become the modern equivalent of Gothic cathedrals in "The New Citroen"?
10. How must one understand the term "political" in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How can photography be used in elections? How are people manipulated through this process?
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
Compare and contrast the author's comments on East vs. West living.
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