Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays Test | Final Test - Hard

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Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays Test | Final Test - Hard

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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. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?

2. What is the first type of object Eco analyzes in "Two Families of Objects"?

3. Eco suggests that language is what in the sense that "it compels speech"?

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

5. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hans Sedlmayr examine the theme of man's lost center?

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

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

5. What books and authors does Eco cite in "Cogito Interruptus"? What conclusion does he come to of their theories?

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

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

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

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"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss American zoos, aquariums and religious monuments. How do these fall into the category of hyper reality in Eco's vision?

Essay Topic 2

Where is the Hearst Castle? How does it reflect hyper realism?

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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