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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Language, Power, Force" Eco describes a lecture given by Roland Barthes on the subject of what?
(a) Symbology.
(b) Metaphology.
(c) Signology.
(d) Semiology.

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

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

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

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

6. What book of Hans Sedlmayr's is cited by Eco in the book?
(a) The Quintessence of Riegl's Thought.
(b) The Subtleties of Modern Art.
(c) Toward a Rigorous Study of Art.
(d) Art in Crisis: The Lost Center.

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

8. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1909.

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

10. 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?
(a) Find a home.
(b) Become useful.
(c) Lose all value.
(d) Generate capitol.

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

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

13. Where was Roland Barthes from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Poland.

14. When was Leon Foucault born?
(a) 1819.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1923.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. When was the film Casablanca released?

5. What does Eco define as "the simplest narrative unit"?

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