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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. When was Karl Marx born?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1815.
2. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Hygiene.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Prayer.
3. What type of medium focuses on low definition so that the received must fill in gaps on their own?
(a) Hot medium.
(b) Wet medium.
(c) Dry medium.
(d) Cool medium.
4. Eco suggests that language is what in the sense that "it compels speech"?
(a) Stimulating.
(b) Fascist.
(c) Encouraging.
(d) Empowering.
5. 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) War and Peace in the Global Village.
(d) Understanding Media.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?
2. Sedlmayr explores the theme of the lost center through the changes in what over the years?
3. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?
4. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?
5. In what essay does Eco discuss the qualities of blue jeans?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Eco maintain sports exist today primarily? How are sports like wax museums?
2. What argument does Eco put forth in "The Comic and the Rule"?
3. What is Eco's principle statement in "Lady Barbara" and "Lumbar Support"?
4. What experience does Eco describe in "Lady Barbara"?
5. How does Eco relate sports to culture and entertainment in "Sports Chatter"?
6. How does semiotics assist in understanding language and communication, according to Eco?
7. How does Eco refute the theory of communication by Marshall McLuhan?
8. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?
9. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?
10. How does Eco propose that one must free oneself from the confines of language?
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