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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) 61.
(b) 49.
(c) 55.
(d) 34.

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

3. Sedlmayr explores the theme of the lost center through the changes in what over the years?
(a) Technology.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Art.
(d) Politics.

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

5. Who was Aristotle a student of?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Zeus.
(c) William of Ockham.
(d) Plato.

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

7. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?
(a) The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.
(b) Understanding Media.
(c) The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man.
(d) War and Peace in the Global Village.

8. Eco writes, "Only when the song has become entirely unpleasant will the audience" do what?
(a) Tell their friends.
(b) Buy the album.
(c) Feel happy at last.
(d) Stand and applaud.

9. 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 library.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) A church.

10. What refers to a medium that focuses on a single sense in order to foster a "high power of definition"?
(a) Dry medium.
(b) Cool medium.
(c) Wet medium.
(d) Hot medium.

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

12. When was Karl Marx born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1828.

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

14. What is a label formulated by US academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals?
(a) Neo-Jungianism.
(b) Mass-psychosis.
(c) Post-structuralism.
(d) Industrialism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who starred in Casablanca?

2. When were the earliest American blue jeans made?

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

4. Eco suggests that the vital essence of sports becomes further removed by what?

5. When was the film Casablanca released?

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