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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. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?

2. Eco maintains that the role of the comic figure is to do what while holding a position that is in stature below the observer?

3. When was Karl Marx born?

4. According to Eco, language encodes power because it forces one to use already formulated what?

5. What does Eco refer to as "data-structures for representing stereotyped situations"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What criticisms does Eco demonstrate over the theories of Hans Sedlmayr?

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

5. How does Eco define "motif"? What word does he choose to use instead?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Roman Empire and its fall. In what ways is the Roman Empire comparable to American society today?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Middle Ages of national identities, the Middle Ages of Decadentism, and the Middle Ages of philological reconstruction. How do these three types relate to one another and how do they apply to American culture today?

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