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

2. What famous work did Karl Marx write with Friedrich Engels?

3. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?

4. Eco refutes Foucault's concept of language as being what?

5. What book of Hans Sedlmayr's is cited by Eco in the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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