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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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."

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

4. 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) Plato.
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Homer.

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

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

7. What sport was Eco apparently very bad at it but wanted to fit in the crowd and thus extolled his father to take him to the games?
(a) Hockey.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Soccer.

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

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

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

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

12. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco states that all of the objects for sale represent a kind of what?
(a) "Obscurity."
(b) "Undifferentiated desire."
(c) "Unique appeal."
(d) "Useless junk."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?

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

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

4. When was Leon Foucault born?

5. Who was the mother of St. Thomas Aquinas?

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