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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. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?
(a) Metalogics.
(b) Signotics.
(c) Analitics.
(d) Semiotics.

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

3. When was Roland Barthes born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1920.

4. Eco suggests that language is what in the sense that "it compels speech"?
(a) Fascist.
(b) Encouraging.
(c) Empowering.
(d) Stimulating.

5. Eco writes that the deployment of what "is religion, politics, ideology"?
(a) Time.
(b) Space.
(c) Communication.
(d) Reality.

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. Hans Sedlmayr was a University Professor of Art History where?

3. Who was Aristotle a student of?

4. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?

5. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?

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