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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. According to the author in "The Great Family of Men," Nature is placed where?

2. As per the opening statement, "Striptease" emphasizes which city?

3. According to "The Form and the Concept" what is the second term of the system in Freud?

4. Myth is an inflexion, not what according to "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?

5. What is the profession of the father of the male lover in "The Lady of the Camellias"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 believe cars have become the modern equivalent of Gothic cathedrals in "The New Citroen"?

6. What are the three ways in which one can understand the myth in "Reading and Deciphering Myth"?

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. How must one understand the term "political" in "Myth is Depoliticized Speech"?

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

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 can myths and communication be used unfairly? What examples of this are there from the book?

Essay Topic 3

How is beauty an important form of myth? How is it decided what beauty is? What examples from the book are there of this?

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