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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 were the earliest American blue jeans made?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1873.
2. When was Roland Barthes born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1918.
3. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Coaching sport.
(c) Discussing sport.
(d) Admiring sport.
4. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?
(a) The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man.
(b) Understanding Media.
(c) The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.
(d) War and Peace in the Global Village.
5. What book of Hans Sedlmayr's is cited by Eco in the book?
(a) The Quintessence of Riegl's Thought.
(b) Toward a Rigorous Study of Art.
(c) The Subtleties of Modern Art.
(d) Art in Crisis: The Lost Center.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Karl Marx born?
2. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?
3. Eco describes Sedlmayr's treatment of art as what?
4. 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?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hans Sedlmayr examine the theme of man's lost center?
2. How does Eco relate sports to culture and entertainment in "Sports Chatter"?
3. What criticisms does Eco demonstrate over the theories of Hans Sedlmayr?
4. How many inter-textual archetypes were used in Casablanca, according to Eco? What does this do?
5. How and from whom did St. Thomas unlock the secrets of reason, according to Eco?
6. Why does Eco maintain sports exist today primarily? How are sports like wax museums?
7. Why was St. Thomas revolutionary, according to Eco?
8. What experience does Eco describe in "Lady Barbara"?
9. What conclusions does Eco come to regarding the definition of power in "Language, Power, Force"?
10. What incident does Eco describe in "A Photograph"? What questions does this bring up?
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