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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. When was Roland Barthes born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1920.
2. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?
(a) Is left feeling hungry.
(b) Destroys his spirit.
(c) Alienates himself.
(d) Consumes himself.
3. Eco refutes Foucault's concept of language as being what?
(a) Psychic.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Fascist.
(d) Simplistic.
4. When did St. Thomas Aquinas die?
(a) 1274.
(b) 1226.
(c) 1268.
(d) 1277.
5. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1901.
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. Who directed Casablanca?
3. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?
4. Eco suggests that it is the creative interplay of the signs that is what, in "Language, Power, Force"?
5. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Eco refute the theory of communication by Marshall McLuhan?
2. What is Eco's principle statement in "Lady Barbara" and "Lumbar Support"?
3. How and from whom did St. Thomas unlock the secrets of reason, according to Eco?
4. What conclusions does Eco come to regarding the definition of power in "Language, Power, Force"?
5. Why was St. Thomas revolutionary, according to Eco?
6. What was the worst thing to ever happen to St. Thomas Aquinas, according to Eco in "In Praise of St. Thomas"?
7. What incident does Eco describe in "A Photograph"? What questions does this bring up?
8. What location does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?
9. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?
10. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?
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