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

2. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?

3. Eco writes that the deployment of what "is religion, politics, ideology"?

4. What is a label formulated by US academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What location does Eco describe in "Two Families of Objects"?

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

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

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

10. How and from whom did St. Thomas unlock the secrets of reason, according to Eco?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how holography has influenced American culture and our perceptions of reality. How is holography an extension of photorealism? How have these formats evolved since the book was written?

Essay Topic 2

Compare contemporary American culture with that of the Middle Ages. In what ways does Eco suggest we are similar? How are we different?

Essay Topic 3

How is "semiotics" defined? How does this term apply to the theories and work of Umberto Eco?

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