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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Eco describe as "stereotyped situations derived from preceding textual tradition"?
(a) Omni-textural frames.
(b) Pre-textural frames.
(c) Inter-textual frames.
(d) Post-texural frames.

3. Hans Sedlmayr was a University Professor of Art History where?
(a) London.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Paris.
(d) Prague.

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

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

6. Eco states that Thomas had to unhook Aristotle's teachings from the use they were being put to by whom?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Mongols.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Averrroes.

7. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?
(a) Teamwork.
(b) Strategic coaching.
(c) Willing participants.
(d) Paid athletes.

8. 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 "plank."
(c) The "platform."
(d) The see-saw."

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

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

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

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

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

14. In "Two Families of Objects," what market does Eco refer to as a "temple" at which the semiotic signs of consumerism may be studied?
(a) The Tokyo Fish Market.
(b) The Cairo Bazaar.
(c) Milan Trade Fair.
(d) The London Farmers Market.

15. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?
(a) Foucault's Elliptical.
(b) Foucault's Pendulum.
(c) Foucault's Merry-go-round.
(d) Foucault's Swing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco suggests that the worst thing to have ever happened to St. Thomas Aquinas was what?

2. When classmates sent a naked girl into St. Thomas Aquinas' room when he was trying to become an abbot, what did he do?

3. What was the Roman Colosseum used principally to host?

4. Eco believes that Sedlmayr's entire book exists to provide evidence of what?

5. Eco asserts that sport now exists mainly for what reasons?

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