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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose theory asserts that non-material abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Plato.
(c) Homer.
(d) Aristotle.

2. How old was St. Thomas Aquinas at his death?
(a) 34.
(b) 55.
(c) 49.
(d) 61.

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

4. Eco believes that Sedlmayr's entire book exists to provide evidence of what?
(a) Questions that exist within Sedlmayr's mind.
(b) Political conspiracy.
(c) The human condition.
(d) A conclusion that has already been made in Sedlmayr's mind.

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...".
(a) Imaginary.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Detailed.
(d) Furnished.

6. When were the earliest American blue jeans made?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1873.

7. Eco suggests that it is the creative interplay of the signs that is what, in "Language, Power, Force"?
(a) Enlightening.
(b) Elemental.
(c) Elevating.
(d) Emancipatory.

8. What refers to something such as an particular mark that represents some piece of information?
(a) Trademark.
(b) Symbol.
(c) Signage.
(d) Brand.

9. Eco suggests that the worst thing to have ever happened to St. Thomas Aquinas was what?
(a) Being born.
(b) The death of his father.
(c) Being named a saint.
(d) Having a naked girl in his room.

10. According to Eco, language encodes power because it forces one to use already formulated what?
(a) Words.
(b) Stereotypes.
(c) Speech patterns.
(d) Slang.

11. Eco suggests that sports have a definitive healthy purpose, among them what?
(a) Focusing the need to win.
(b) The channeling of aggressive drives.
(c) Cooperating with others.
(d) The need to belong to a team.

12. Eco asserts that sport now exists mainly for what reasons?
(a) Economic.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Physical.

13. Eco relates his experience of having the song "Lady Barbara" burst into his head to what?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Booing.
(c) Heckling.
(d) Anticipatory applause.

14. Where was Leon Foucault from?
(a) Morocco.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Spain.

15. When was St. Thomas Aquinas born?
(a) 1225.
(b) 1374.
(c) 1274.
(d) 1324.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Aristotle born?

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

3. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?

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

5. When was Karl Marx born?

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