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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 an animal the lion will not share his hunted food with in "The Form and the Concept."
2. The main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" cannot see herself as anything but "that of ornament in the museum of the _____." How is this quote finished?
3. What is one of the functions of myth in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?
4. What flowers does the author use to signify his passion in "Myth is a Semiological System"?
5. In "Myth on the Left" what is the opposite of myth?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does the author suggest is characteristic of myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
3. What is history's role concerning myth as a type of speech, according to "Myth is a Type of Speech"?
4. What is semiology?
5. How must one understand the term "political" in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?
6. What is "the inoculation"?
7. How do the ways that Marguerite and Armand feel love differ from one another in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
8. How does the author suggest class and progressive humanism differ from one another in "The Great Family of Man"?
9. How is the woman in "Striptease" an object in disguise? What is the point of this?
10. What language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left?" Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What journalism/literature devalues the human experience, according to the author? How and why do people let this happen?
Essay Topic 2
What are the different ways to understand myth? Who decides how to do so and how?
Essay Topic 3
What is the media's responsibility to mythology? How do they shape/manipulate it? Is this able to be ignored? Why or why not?
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