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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. What does the author say the world supplies to myth in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?

2. Mythology is a part of semiology in what way according to "Myth as a Semiological System"?

3. In "Myth on the Right," what does the bourgeoisie want to keep with the appearances?

4. What is the main character's lover's name in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

5. In "Myth on the Left" what is the opposite of myth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is plastic a "miraculous substance," according to the author in "Plastic"?

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

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. Why does Marguerite only send the audience "to sleep" in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

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

8. How does the author suggest that myth seeks after him (or you or I) in "The Signification"?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does modern culture create superficial notions in its art? What does this suggest of the world that creates this art? How is it different than art of the past?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What is Einstein's role in our culture? What has changed about him as a myth since he died? How is he appreciated and what for? What are the two camps of regarding his thought process, according to the author?

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