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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. What does Eco refer to as "data-structures for representing stereotyped situations"?
(a) Deja-vu.
(b) Reiteration.
(c) Identical-story.
(d) Common-frame.

2. Eco maintains that the role of the comic figure is to do what while holding a position that is in stature below the observer?
(a) Lighten the mood.
(b) Tell a joke.
(c) Divert attention.
(d) Break a rule.

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

4. Where was Roland Barthes from?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Poland.
(d) Italy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Roland Barthes born?

2. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco states that all of the objects for sale represent a kind of what?

3. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?

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

5. How old was St. Thomas Aquinas at his death?

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

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

4. What two types of objects does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?

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

6. What location does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?

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

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

9. What experience does Eco describe in "Lady Barbara"?

10. What argument does Eco put forth in "The Comic and the Rule"?

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