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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. Where was Leon Foucault from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Morocco.
(c) France.
(d) England.

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

3. What refers to something such as an particular mark that represents some piece of information?
(a) Signage.
(b) Symbol.
(c) Trademark.
(d) Brand.

4. What is the first type of object Eco analyzes in "Two Families of Objects"?
(a) The significant object.
(b) The common object.
(c) The beautiful object.
(d) The antique object.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?

2. When was Aristotle born?

3. Where was Karl Marx born?

4. 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?

5. What type of medium focuses on low definition so that the received must fill in gaps on their own?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Eco assert about sports in the beginning of "Sports Chatter"?

4. Why does Eco maintain sports exist today primarily? How are sports like wax museums?

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

6. What conclusions does Eco come to regarding the definition of power in "Language, Power, Force"?

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

8. What was the worst thing to ever happen to St. Thomas Aquinas, according to Eco in "In Praise of St. Thomas"?

9. What criticisms does Eco demonstrate over the theories of Hans Sedlmayr?

10. How does Eco propose that one must free oneself from the confines of language?

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