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

2. Eco believes that Sedlmayr's entire book exists to provide evidence of what?
(a) Questions that exist within Sedlmayr's mind.
(b) The human condition.
(c) Political conspiracy.
(d) A conclusion that has already been made in Sedlmayr's mind.

3. Who directed Casablanca?
(a) Elia Kazan.
(b) George Stevens.
(c) Michael Curtiz.
(d) George Stevens.

4. Eco suggests that the vital essence of sports becomes further removed by what?
(a) Losing.
(b) Sports press.
(c) Commercialism.
(d) Angry fans.

5. Eco asserts that sport now exists mainly for what reasons?
(a) Selfish.
(b) Economic.
(c) Physical.
(d) Spiritual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco suggests that language is what in the sense that "it compels speech"?

2. Sedlmayr asserts that what is a rejection of the upward thrust of other buildings and implies that it means a disconnection from the earth?

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

4. Eco relates his experience of having the song "Lady Barbara" burst into his head to what?

5. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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