Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays Test | Final Test - Easy

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Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco asserts that sport now exists mainly for what reasons?
(a) Economic.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Physical.

2. In "A Photograph" Eco references an incident in which a radio station captured the live experience of what?
(a) An angry mob.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) The building burning down.
(d) Being shut down by the police.

3. In "Language, Power, Force" Eco describes a lecture given by Roland Barthes on the subject of what?
(a) Signology.
(b) Symbology.
(c) Semiology.
(d) Metaphology.

4. Eco suggests that the vital essence of sports becomes further removed by what?
(a) Losing.
(b) Commercialism.
(c) Angry fans.
(d) Sports press.

5. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?
(a) Coaching sport.
(b) Admiring sport.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Discussing sport.

6. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Aquino.
(d) St. Thomas.

7. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?
(a) A preposterous opinion.
(b) The point where they started.
(c) Opposite conclusions.
(d) Dead ends.

8. When classmates sent a naked girl into St. Thomas Aquinas' room when he was trying to become an abbot, what did he do?
(a) Chased her out with a hot brand.
(b) Offered her a seat.
(c) Ran at her with a knife.
(d) Offered her clothes.

9. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?
(a) Foucault's Pendulum.
(b) Foucault's Elliptical.
(c) Foucault's Swing.
(d) Foucault's Merry-go-round.

10. What was the Roman Colosseum used principally to host?
(a) Gladiatorial shows.
(b) Chariot races.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Soccer.

11. According to Eco, language encodes power because it forces one to use already formulated what?
(a) Stereotypes.
(b) Speech patterns.
(c) Words.
(d) Slang.

12. When did St. Thomas Aquinas die?
(a) 1268.
(b) 1277.
(c) 1226.
(d) 1274.

13. Eco refutes Foucault's concept of language as being what?
(a) Fascist.
(b) Simplistic.
(c) Psychic.
(d) Democratic.

14. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Barbarism.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Chatter.

15. When was Karl Marx born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1815.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Aristotle born?

2. When was the film Casablanca released?

3. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?

4. Whose theory asserts that non-material abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality?

5. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?

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