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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. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Russia.
(d) England.
2. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Hygiene.
3. St. Thomas Aquinas was revolutionary in the sense that he was able to do what?
(a) Talk to god.
(b) Bring divergent thought together.
(c) See the future.
(d) Unite different religions.
4. Eco suggests that sports have a definitive healthy purpose, among them what?
(a) The channeling of aggressive drives.
(b) Focusing the need to win.
(c) Cooperating with others.
(d) The need to belong to a team.
5. Where was Roland Barthes from?
(a) Poland.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Karl Marx born?
2. 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?
3. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?
4. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?
5. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does semiotics assist in understanding language and communication, according to Eco?
2. How and from whom did St. Thomas unlock the secrets of reason, according to Eco?
3. What does Eco assert about sports in the beginning of "Sports Chatter"?
4. How does Eco propose that one must free oneself from the confines of language?
5. What incident does Eco describe in "A Photograph"? What questions does this bring up?
6. What location does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?
7. How does Eco define "motif"? What word does he choose to use instead?
8. What two types of objects does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?
9. What was the worst thing to ever happen to St. Thomas Aquinas, according to Eco in "In Praise of St. Thomas"?
10. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?
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