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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 a Greek shepherd in "Plastic"?

2. What language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left"?

3. In "Myth is Depoliticized Speech," how does myth act in the passing from history to nature?

4. The workers mentioned in "The Great Family of Men" of the Goutte d'Or are from where?

5. "The _____ of myth presents itself in an ambiguous way." How is this quote from "The Form and the Concept" finished?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author suggest class and progressive humanism differ from one another in "The Great Family of Man"?

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

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

4. What is "the inoculation"?

5. What is semiology?

6. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is beauty an important form of myth? How is it decided what beauty is? What examples from the book are there of this?

Essay Topic 2

What is a "Jet-Man?" What are peoples' attitudes towards him? What do these attitudes reflect of the people who hold them? How is the "Jet-Man" different than most people and how is he the same?

Essay Topic 3

What journalism/literature devalues the human experience, according to the author? How and why do people let this happen?

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