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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When was Aristotle born?
(a) 454 B.C.
(b) 384 B.C.
(c) 420 B.C.
(d) 442 B.C.

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

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

7. What type of medium focuses on low definition so that the received must fill in gaps on their own?
(a) Wet medium.
(b) Hot medium.
(c) Dry medium.
(d) Cool medium.

8. Eco suggests that sports have a definitive healthy purpose, among them what?
(a) Focusing the need to win.
(b) The channeling of aggressive drives.
(c) Cooperating with others.
(d) The need to belong to a team.

9. Eco suggests that power contains both elements of "repression" and excitation, power is "plural," and that power is what?
(a) Exercised.
(b) Epressed.
(c) Engaging.
(d) Elemental.

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

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

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

13. What was the Roman Colosseum used principally to host?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Chariot races.
(d) Gladiatorial shows.

14. When was the film Casablanca released?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1947.

15. 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 London Farmers Market.
(b) The Tokyo Fish Market.
(c) The Cairo Bazaar.
(d) Milan Trade Fair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all?

3. Where was Leon Foucault from?

4. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?

5. In what essay does Eco discuss the qualities of blue jeans?

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