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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 type of photograph "suggests the tyranny of an ideal" in "Photography and Electoral Appeal"?
2. What language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left"?
3. Which of the following is not an animal the lion will not share his hunted food with in "The Form and the Concept."
4. In "Myth is a Stolen Language," what offers little resistance to robbery by myth"?
5. The workers mentioned in "The Great Family of Men" of the Goutte d'Or are from where?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the ways that Marguerite and Armand feel love differ from one another in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
2. How is plastic a "miraculous substance," according to the author in "Plastic"?
3. How must one understand the term "political" in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?
4. What are the three ways in which one can understand the myth in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?
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. What is history's role concerning myth as a type of speech, according to "Myth is a Type of Speech"?
7. Why does the author say that poetry is ideal prey for myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
8. How does the author suggest class and progressive humanism differ from one another in "The Great Family of Man"?
9. Does the author admit there are revolts against the bourgeois ideology in "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company"? What is it called?
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
What journalism/literature devalues the human experience, according to the author? How and why do people let this happen?
Essay Topic 2
How is wrestling a mirror of real life? Who are the "players" of wrestling that are frequent characters of the world in which we live? How is this merger of these characters with violence relevant to our society?
Essay Topic 3
How is love a myth and what are the examples of this in the book? Compare and contrast the different forms of love.
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