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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Language, Power, Force" Eco describes a lecture given by Roland Barthes on the subject of what?

2. When was St. Thomas Aquinas born?

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

4. Where was Roland Barthes from?

5. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What experience does Eco describe in "Lady Barbara"?

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

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

8. Why does Eco maintain sports exist today primarily? How are sports like wax museums?

9. What argument does Eco put forth in "The Comic and the Rule"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Getty and Ringling Museums. Where are they located and by whom were they originated? Why does Eco discuss each?

Essay Topic 2

What does Eco use Superman as a metaphor for in Section I - Chapter 1? What is a "Fortress of Solitude"?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the actions of the Red Brigades and discusses how communication plays a role in revolution. How does the multinational arrangement change things?

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