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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 famous work did Karl Marx write with Friedrich Engels?
(a) The Communist Manifesto.
(b) The Poverty of Philosophy.
(c) Notes on James Mill.
(d) The Philosophical Manifesto of the Historical School of Law.

2. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?
(a) 65 B.C.
(b) 72 A.D.
(c) 22 B.C.
(d) 12 A.D.

3. What type of medium focuses on low definition so that the received must fill in gaps on their own?
(a) Hot medium.
(b) Cool medium.
(c) Dry medium.
(d) Wet medium.

4. Who directed Casablanca?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) George Stevens.
(c) Michael Curtiz.
(d) George Stevens.

5. St. Thomas Aquinas was revolutionary in the sense that he was able to do what?
(a) Talk to god.
(b) Unite different religions.
(c) See the future.
(d) Bring divergent thought together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco suggests that power contains both elements of "repression" and excitation, power is "plural," and that power is what?

2. When was the film Casablanca released?

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. What refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all?

5. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are spectator sports like war, according to Eco? How are they superior?

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

3. How many inter-textual archetypes were used in Casablanca, according to Eco? What does this do?

4. What location does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?

5. How does semiotics assist in understanding language and communication, according to Eco?

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

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

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

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

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

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