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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 Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1905.
2. When was St. Thomas Aquinas born?
(a) 1274.
(b) 1225.
(c) 1324.
(d) 1374.
3. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Hygiene.
4. What book of Hans Sedlmayr's is cited by Eco in the book?
(a) Art in Crisis: The Lost Center.
(b) Toward a Rigorous Study of Art.
(c) The Quintessence of Riegl's Thought.
(d) The Subtleties of Modern Art.
5. 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) Homer.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Plato.
Short Answer Questions
1. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?
2. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?
3. What does Eco define as "the simplest narrative unit"?
4. When did St. Thomas Aquinas die?
5. When was Karl Marx born?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Eco refute the theory of communication by Marshall McLuhan?
2. How does Hans Sedlmayr examine the theme of man's lost center?
3. What books and authors does Eco cite in "Cogito Interruptus"? What conclusion does he come to of their theories?
4. What experience does Eco describe in "Lady Barbara"?
5. What was the worst thing to ever happen to St. Thomas Aquinas, according to Eco in "In Praise of St. Thomas"?
6. How many inter-textual archetypes were used in Casablanca, according to Eco? What does this do?
7. What location does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?
8. How does Eco propose that one must free oneself from the confines of language?
9. Why was St. Thomas revolutionary, according to Eco?
10. How are spectator sports like war, according to Eco? How are they superior?
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