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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. "A ____ decor complete with _____." How is this quote from Striptease finished?
2. What is one of the best methods against myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
3. As per the opening statement, "Striptease" emphasizes which city?
4. According to "The Form and the Concept" what is the second term of the system in Freud?
5. The author says that the main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" lives in the awareness of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is semiology?
2. What is "the inoculation"?
3. How is plastic a "miraculous substance," according to the author in "Plastic"?
4. Does the author admit there are revolts against the bourgeois ideology in "The Bourgeoisie as a Joint-Stock Company"? What is it called?
5. Why does the author say that poetry is ideal prey for myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
6. Why does the author believe cars have become the modern equivalent of Gothic cathedrals in "The New Citroen"?
7. Why does Marguerite only send the audience "to sleep" in "The Lady of the Camellias"?
8. What does the author suggest is characteristic of myth in "Myth as a Stolen Language"?
9. What allows the reader of "Reading and Deciphering Myth" to consume myth innocently?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Compare and contrast the author's comments on East vs. West living.
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