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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XIII Chapter 8 288- 307.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco puts forth three possibilities for the focus of expositions in the future. What is the first?
(a) A collection of symbolic objects.
(b) A universal language.
(c) Technology.
(d) An educational instrument.

2. Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?
(a) Stanley Kubrick.
(b) Alfred Hitchcock.
(c) Victor Fleming.
(d) Orson Welles.

3. Eco creates a language for talking about communication transmission in which there is a source that sends out a signal via a transmitter through what?
(a) A transistor.
(b) A sine wave.
(c) A wavelength.
(d) A channel.

4. Eco suggests that power contains both elements of "repression" and excitation, power is "plural," and that power is what?
(a) Engaging.
(b) Elemental.
(c) Epressed.
(d) Exercised.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco states that all of the objects for sale represent a kind of what?

2. When did St. Thomas Aquinas die?

3. What refers to something such as an particular mark that represents some piece of information?

4. When was Marshall McLuhan born?

5. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?

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