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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "A Photograph" Eco references an incident in which a radio station captured the live experience of what?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) An angry mob.
(c) Being shut down by the police.
(d) The building burning down.

2. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?
(a) A library.
(b) An orphanage.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A church.

3. When classmates sent a naked girl into St. Thomas Aquinas' room when he was trying to become an abbot, what did he do?
(a) Ran at her with a knife.
(b) Offered her a seat.
(c) Offered her clothes.
(d) Chased her out with a hot brand.

4. Sedlmayr asserts that what is a rejection of the upward thrust of other buildings and implies that it means a disconnection from the earth?
(a) The "cantilever."
(b) The see-saw."
(c) The "platform."
(d) The "plank."

5. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?
(a) Destroys his spirit.
(b) Is left feeling hungry.
(c) Alienates himself.
(d) Consumes himself.

6. 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.

7. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?
(a) Discussing sport.
(b) Coaching sport.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Admiring sport.

8. When did St. Thomas Aquinas die?
(a) 1226.
(b) 1274.
(c) 1277.
(d) 1268.

9. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?
(a) Aquino.
(b) Paris.
(c) St. Thomas.
(d) London.

10. St. Thomas Aquinas was revolutionary in the sense that he was able to do what?
(a) Talk to god.
(b) Unite different religions.
(c) Bring divergent thought together.
(d) See the future.

11. 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) Homer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

12. Who directed Casablanca?
(a) George Stevens.
(b) George Stevens.
(c) Michael Curtiz.
(d) Elia Kazan.

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

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

15. Who was the mother of St. Thomas Aquinas?
(a) Alezona of Aquinas.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Theodora Countess of Theate.
(d) Maria Alexandra Corvesa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Eco writes, "Only when the song has become entirely unpleasant will the audience" do what?

4. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?

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

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