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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 significant unit or synthesis mentioned by the author in "Myth is a Type of Speech"?
2. In "Reading and Deciphering Myth" causality creeps through the back door of what?
3. According to "Myth is a Type of Speech," myth is a system of what?
4. In "Myth on the Right," what does the bourgeoisie want to keep with the appearances?
5. According to the author in "The Great Family of Men," Nature is placed where?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the author say that poetry is ideal prey for myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
2. What does the author suggest is characteristic of myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
3. 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?
4. How must one understand the term "political" in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?
5. In "The Form and the Concept," how is it the author suggests the signifier of myth is presented?
6. What language is not mythical according to "Myth on the Left?" Why?
7. Why does Marguerite only send the audience "to sleep" in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
8. What is semiology?
9. Why does the author believe cars have become the modern equivalent of Gothic cathedrals in "The New Citroen"?
10. How do the ways that Marguerite and Armand feel love differ from one another in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
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 non-living objects does the author give life to in "Mythologies?" Of which examples is the author's tone positive and which negative?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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