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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 refers to a medium that focuses on a single sense in order to foster a "high power of definition"?
(a) Hot medium.
(b) Dry medium.
(c) Cool medium.
(d) Wet medium.

2. Eco writes that the deployment of what "is religion, politics, ideology"?
(a) Time.
(b) Communication.
(c) Space.
(d) Reality.

3. When was Roland Barthes born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1918.

4. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?
(a) Dead ends.
(b) The point where they started.
(c) Opposite conclusions.
(d) A preposterous opinion.

5. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Hygiene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco suggests that the vital essence of sports becomes further removed by what?

2. Eco writes, "Only when the song has become entirely unpleasant will the audience" do what?

3. Eco suggests that it is the creative interplay of the signs that is what, in "Language, Power, Force"?

4. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?

5. Sedlmayr asserts that what is a rejection of the upward thrust of other buildings and implies that it means a disconnection from the earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was St. Thomas revolutionary, according to Eco?

3. What books and authors does Eco cite in "Cogito Interruptus"? What conclusion does he come to of their theories?

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

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

6. How does Eco define "motif"? What word does he choose to use instead?

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

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 criticisms does Eco demonstrate over the theories of Hans Sedlmayr?

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