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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. Sedlmayr asserts that what is a rejection of the upward thrust of other buildings and implies that it means a disconnection from the earth?

2. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?

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

4. In "A Photograph" Eco references an incident in which a radio station captured the live experience of what?

5. What sport was Eco apparently very bad at it but wanted to fit in the crowd and thus extolled his father to take him to the games?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss Jim Jones, the establishment of the People's Temple, and how Millenarian dynamics played a role in Jones' power. What other cult leaders have exhibited the same traits as Jones?

Essay Topic 3

Describe an American theme park of your choosing, including the park's history, creator, and concept. How does the park create a hyper reality and what is the ultimate purpose of that hyper reality?

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