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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 Karl Marx born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1815.
2. What is the first type of object Eco analyzes in "Two Families of Objects"?
(a) The antique object.
(b) The common object.
(c) The beautiful object.
(d) The significant object.
3. When was St. Thomas Aquinas born?
(a) 1324.
(b) 1225.
(c) 1274.
(d) 1374.
4. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.
5. 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) Divert attention.
(c) Tell a joke.
(d) Break a rule.
Short Answer Questions
1. Eco writes that the deployment of what "is religion, politics, ideology"?
2. When did St. Thomas Aquinas die?
3. In "Two Families of Objects," what market does Eco refer to as a "temple" at which the semiotic signs of consumerism may be studied?
4. Where was Leon Foucault from?
5. Eco describes Sedlmayr's treatment of art as what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What books and authors does Eco cite in "Cogito Interruptus"? What conclusion does he come to of their theories?
2. What two types of objects does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?
3. Why does Eco maintain sports exist today primarily? How are sports like wax museums?
4. What argument does Eco put forth in "The Comic and the Rule"?
5. How many inter-textual archetypes were used in Casablanca, according to Eco? What does this do?
6. What was the worst thing to ever happen to St. Thomas Aquinas, according to Eco in "In Praise of St. Thomas"?
7. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?
8. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?
9. How does Eco define "motif"? What word does he choose to use instead?
10. How and from whom did St. Thomas unlock the secrets of reason, according to Eco?
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