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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was St. Thomas Aquinas at his death?
(a) 34.
(b) 49.
(c) 61.
(d) 55.

2. Eco suggests that in order to achieve cult status a movie "must provide a completely _____ world so that its fans can quote characters as if they were aspects of the fan's private sectarian world...".
(a) Realistic.
(b) Furnished.
(c) Detailed.
(d) Imaginary.

3. Who was the mother of St. Thomas Aquinas?
(a) Maria Alexandra Corvesa.
(b) Theodora Countess of Theate.
(c) Alezona of Aquinas.
(d) Joan of Arc.

4. Where was Karl Marx born?
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) Russia.
(d) Poland.

5. When was Leon Foucault born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1819.

6. When was St. Thomas Aquinas born?
(a) 1274.
(b) 1225.
(c) 1324.
(d) 1374.

7. Eco suggests that power contains both elements of "repression" and excitation, power is "plural," and that power is what?
(a) Exercised.
(b) Elemental.
(c) Epressed.
(d) Engaging.

8. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?
(a) The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man.
(b) The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.
(c) Understanding Media.
(d) War and Peace in the Global Village.

9. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Exercise.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Hygiene.
(d) Prayer.

10. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) Russia.
(b) Italy.
(c) Hungary.
(d) England.

11. What does Eco refer to as "data-structures for representing stereotyped situations"?
(a) Deja-vu.
(b) Identical-story.
(c) Reiteration.
(d) Common-frame.

12. What does Eco define as "the simplest narrative unit"?
(a) Paragraph.
(b) Motif.
(c) Theme.
(d) Symbol.

13. In what essay does Eco discuss the qualities of blue jeans?
(a) "Levi's Plague."
(b) "Lumbar Thought."
(c) "Denim Nightmare."
(d) "Cowboy Pants."

14. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?
(a) Barbarism.
(b) Chatter.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Entertainment.

15. In "Language, Power, Force" Eco describes a lecture given by Roland Barthes on the subject of what?
(a) Metaphology.
(b) Signology.
(c) Semiology.
(d) Symbology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?

2. When were the earliest American blue jeans made?

3. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?

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

5. Whose theory asserts that non-material abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality?

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