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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 St. Thomas Aquinas born?
(a) 1225.
(b) 1274.
(c) 1324.
(d) 1374.

2. What does Eco describe as "stereotyped situations derived from preceding textual tradition"?
(a) Post-texural frames.
(b) Omni-textural frames.
(c) Pre-textural frames.
(d) Inter-textual frames.

3. Eco suggests that power contains both elements of "repression" and excitation, power is "plural," and that power is what?
(a) Engaging.
(b) Elemental.
(c) Epressed.
(d) Exercised.

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

5. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?
(a) Paid athletes.
(b) Teamwork.
(c) Willing participants.
(d) Strategic coaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedlmayr explores the theme of the lost center through the changes in what over the years?

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

3. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco cites Karl Marx implying that markets are the very places in which the goods that are being sold do what?

4. Eco states that Thomas had to unhook Aristotle's teachings from the use they were being put to by whom?

5. When classmates sent a naked girl into St. Thomas Aquinas' room when he was trying to become an abbot, what did he do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What incident does Eco describe in "A Photograph"? What questions does this bring up?

2. How does Eco relate sports to culture and entertainment in "Sports Chatter"?

3. How does Eco refute the theory of communication by Marshall McLuhan?

4. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?

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

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

7. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?

8. What does Eco assert about sports in the beginning of "Sports Chatter"?

9. How does Eco propose that one must free oneself from the confines of language?

10. What conclusions does Eco come to regarding the definition of power in "Language, Power, Force"?

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