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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who starred in Casablanca?
(a) James Dean.
(b) Burt Lancaster.
(c) Humphrey Bogart.
(d) Marvin Sales.

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

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

4. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?
(a) 22 B.C.
(b) 12 A.D.
(c) 72 A.D.
(d) 65 B.C.

5. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) Russia.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Hungary.

Short Answer Questions

1. St. Thomas Aquinas was revolutionary in the sense that he was able to do what?

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

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

4. According to Eco, language encodes power because it forces one to use already formulated what?

5. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What incident does Eco describe in "A Photograph"? What questions does this bring up?

2. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?

3. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?

4. How does Hans Sedlmayr examine the theme of man's lost center?

5. How does semiotics assist in understanding language and communication, according to Eco?

6. Why was St. Thomas revolutionary, according to Eco?

7. What is Eco's principle statement in "Lady Barbara" and "Lumbar Support"?

8. How many inter-textual archetypes were used in Casablanca, according to Eco? What does this do?

9. How are spectator sports like war, according to Eco? How are they superior?

10. How does Eco refute the theory of communication by Marshall McLuhan?

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