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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 was Aristotle born?

2. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco states that all of the objects for sale represent a kind of what?

3. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?

4. Who was the mother of St. Thomas Aquinas?

5. In what essay does Eco discuss the qualities of blue jeans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Describe a museum of your choosing and how it reflects or does not reflect authenticity. According to Eco's definition and theories, is this museum authentic and how is that determined?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the structure, history and rites of Afro-Brazilian culture. What is the leadership like within these communities?

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