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

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

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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. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?

2. Eco maintains that the role of the comic figure is to do what while holding a position that is in stature below the observer?

3. What refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all?

4. What refers to a medium that focuses on a single sense in order to foster a "high power of definition"?

5. Eco suggests that sports have a definitive healthy purpose, among them what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eco propose that one must free oneself from the confines of language?

2. How does Eco relate sports to culture and entertainment in "Sports Chatter"?

3. What books and authors does Eco cite in "Cogito Interruptus"? What conclusion does he come to of their theories?

4. How does Eco refute the theory of communication by Marshall McLuhan?

5. How many inter-textual archetypes were used in Casablanca, according to Eco? What does this do?

6. What is Eco's principle statement in "Lady Barbara" and "Lumbar Support"?

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

8. What was the worst thing to ever happen to St. Thomas Aquinas, according to Eco in "In Praise of St. Thomas"?

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

10. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define modus ponens and discuss the correlation between violence and reason. How does Eco suggest future violent events might be averted?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Middle Ages of national identities, the Middle Ages of Decadentism, and the Middle Ages of philological reconstruction. How do these three types relate to one another and how do they apply to American culture today?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss American zoos, aquariums and religious monuments. How do these fall into the category of hyper reality in Eco's vision?

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