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

2. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Hygiene.
(d) Prayer.

3. Eco maintains that the role of the comic figure is to do what while holding a position that is in stature below the observer?
(a) Lighten the mood.
(b) Divert attention.
(c) Break a rule.
(d) Tell a joke.

4. When was Leon Foucault born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous work did Karl Marx write with Friedrich Engels?

2. When classmates sent a naked girl into St. Thomas Aquinas' room when he was trying to become an abbot, what did he do?

3. In "A Photograph" Eco references an incident in which a radio station captured the live experience of what?

4. In "Language, Power, Force" Eco describes a lecture given by Roland Barthes on the subject of what?

5. Eco suggests that in order to achieve cult status a movie "must provide a completely _____ world so that its fans can quote characters as if they were aspects of the fan's private sectarian world...".

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Eco maintain sports exist today primarily? How are sports like wax museums?

2. What two types of objects does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?

3. Why was St. Thomas revolutionary, according to Eco?

4. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?

5. How and from whom did St. Thomas unlock the secrets of reason, according to Eco?

6. What does Eco assert about sports in the beginning of "Sports Chatter"?

7. How does Eco define "motif"? What word does he choose to use instead?

8. What location does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?

9. What conclusions does Eco come to regarding the definition of power in "Language, Power, Force"?

10. What argument does Eco put forth in "The Comic and the Rule"?

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