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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author says that the main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" lives in the awareness of what?
(a) Her selflessness.
(b) Her pride.
(c) Her alienation.
(d) Her selfishness.

2. Plastic is "ubiquity made ____." How is this quote from "Plastic" finished?
(a) Affordable.
(b) Modern.
(c) Visible.
(d) Simple.

3. According to "Myth is a Type of Speech," myth is a system of what?
(a) Types of speech.
(b) Words.
(c) Communication.
(d) Grammar.

4. As per the opening statement, "Striptease" emphasizes which city?
(a) London.
(b) Nice.
(c) Prague.
(d) Paris.

5. The main character of "The Lady of the Camellias" cannot see herself as anything but "that of ornament in the museum of the _____." How is this quote finished?
(a) Masters.
(b) Readers.
(c) Sufferers.
(d) Care-givers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not part of the function of a myth in "Myth is a Semiological System"?

2. In "Myth is a Type of Speech" what happens to certain objects that become prey to mythical speech?

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

4. Which of the following is not a general prospect of the pseudo-physis of the dreams of the contemporary bourgeois world?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is "the inoculation"?

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

8. What is history's role concerning myth as a type of speech, according to "Myth is a Type of Speech"?

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

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

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