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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 other alcoholic beverage is wine contrasted to in "Wine and Milk"?

2. What film is mentioned in the first paragraph of "The Romans in Films"?

3. "Which phrase concludes "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"?

4. "One is gifted for jet-flying as others are ____." How is this quote from "The Jet-Man" finished?

5. What did the face of Valentino cause, as per "The Face of Garbo"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are "The Nautilus" and "Mysterious Island" similar and different?

2. How does Abbe Pierre's haircut a juncture of meeting points and definitions?

3. Who is the writer discussed in "The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat"? What is Barthes opinion of this writer's ambitions?

4. What is particularly special of the "Jet-Man"?

5. Why are the "Ornamental Cookery" images in Elle magazine put fourth in vain?

6. What is the literary device Verne created?

7. Why is it that the writer works on holiday important?

8. What is Charlie Chaplin presenting to audiences in the film "Modern Times"?

9. How is fairness apart of wrestling?

10. What is the opposite of "The Nautilus"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What was relevant of "The 'Blue Blood' Cruise?" How is the attitude of the royalty the same as the attitude of common people? What does this attitude say of the royalty who holds it? What does the connection between royalty and the common people because of this attitude suggest of humanity?

Essay Topic 3

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

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