1. According to Eco, hyper reality serves to confuse the boundaries of what?
(a) Horror vacui.
(b) Ultimate counterfeit.
(c) Space and time.
(d) Church and state.

2. Eco asserts that nature is a victim of what by way of zoos and aquariums?
(a) Hyper reality.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Animal cruelty.
(d) Consumerism.

3. What does Eco define as "the simplest narrative unit"?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Paragraph.
(c) Motif.
(d) Theme.

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

5. What sport was Eco apparently very bad at it but wanted to fit in the crowd and thus extolled his father to take him to the games?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Hockey.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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...".

2. The works of art within the Ringling Museum of Art are what?

3. When was Karl Marx born?

4. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco cites Karl Marx implying that markets are the very places in which the goods that are being sold do what?

5. Eco refutes Foucault's concept of language as being what?

(see the answer key)

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