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Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays Test | Final Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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) Entertainment.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Barbarism.
(d) Chatter.

2. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?
(a) Dead ends.
(b) A preposterous opinion.
(c) Opposite conclusions.
(d) The point where they started.

3. In "A Photograph" Eco references an incident in which a radio station captured the live experience of what?
(a) The building burning down.
(b) Being shut down by the police.
(c) An angry mob.
(d) An earthquake.

4. When did St. Thomas Aquinas die?
(a) 1226.
(b) 1274.
(c) 1277.
(d) 1268.

5. Sedlmayr asserts that what is a rejection of the upward thrust of other buildings and implies that it means a disconnection from the earth?
(a) The "plank."
(b) The "platform."
(c) The "cantilever."
(d) The see-saw."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eco suggests that the worst thing to have ever happened to St. Thomas Aquinas was what?

3. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?

4. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?

5. What does Eco describe as "stereotyped situations derived from preceding textual tradition"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conclusions does Eco come to regarding the definition of power in "Language, Power, Force"?

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

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

5. Why does Eco maintain sports exist today primarily? How are sports like wax museums?

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

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

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

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

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

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