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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 Aristotle born?
(a) 454 B.C.
(b) 384 B.C.
(c) 442 B.C.
(d) 420 B.C.
2. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?
(a) 12 A.D.
(b) 22 B.C.
(c) 65 B.C.
(d) 72 A.D.
3. Eco suggests that sports have a definitive healthy purpose, among them what?
(a) Focusing the need to win.
(b) Cooperating with others.
(c) The need to belong to a team.
(d) The channeling of aggressive drives.
4. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Discussing sport.
(c) Admiring sport.
(d) Coaching sport.
5. What does Eco describe as "stereotyped situations derived from preceding textual tradition"?
(a) Pre-textural frames.
(b) Omni-textural frames.
(c) Post-texural frames.
(d) Inter-textual frames.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Roland Barthes from?
2. Who directed Casablanca?
3. St. Thomas Aquinas was revolutionary in the sense that he was able to do what?
4. How many inter-textual archetypes are used in Casablanca, according to Eco?
5. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?
2. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?
3. How many inter-textual archetypes were used in Casablanca, according to Eco? What does this do?
4. What was the worst thing to ever happen to St. Thomas Aquinas, according to Eco in "In Praise of St. Thomas"?
5. How does semiotics assist in understanding language and communication, according to Eco?
6. What books and authors does Eco cite in "Cogito Interruptus"? What conclusion does he come to of their theories?
7. How does Hans Sedlmayr examine the theme of man's lost center?
8. How does Eco propose that one must free oneself from the confines of language?
9. Why was St. Thomas revolutionary, according to Eco?
10. How does Eco refute the theory of communication by Marshall McLuhan?
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