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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Karl Marx born?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1818.

3. Eco maintains that the role of the comic figure is to do what while holding a position that is in stature below the observer?
(a) Divert attention.
(b) Lighten the mood.
(c) Break a rule.
(d) Tell a joke.

4. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?
(a) A library.
(b) A church.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) An orphanage.

5. What does Eco describe as "stereotyped situations derived from preceding textual tradition"?
(a) Post-texural frames.
(b) Inter-textual frames.
(c) Pre-textural frames.
(d) Omni-textural frames.

6. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1896.

7. Where was St. Thomas Aquinas born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Aquino.
(c) London.
(d) St. Thomas.

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

9. What was the Roman Colosseum used principally to host?
(a) Chariot races.
(b) Gladiatorial shows.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Soccer.

10. When were the earliest American blue jeans made?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1873.

11. What type of medium focuses on low definition so that the received must fill in gaps on their own?
(a) Dry medium.
(b) Cool medium.
(c) Wet medium.
(d) Hot medium.

12. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?
(a) Destroys his spirit.
(b) Consumes himself.
(c) Is left feeling hungry.
(d) Alienates himself.

13. 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?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Homer.
(d) Shakespeare

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

15. Eco refutes Foucault's concept of language as being what?
(a) Psychic.
(b) Simplistic.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Fascist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Leon Foucault born?

2. Where was Leon Foucault from?

3. What refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all?

4. What refers to a medium that focuses on a single sense in order to foster a "high power of definition"?

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

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