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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who starred in Casablanca?

3. When classmates sent a naked girl into St. Thomas Aquinas' room when he was trying to become an abbot, what did he do?

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

5. When was Roland Barthes born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What criticisms does Eco demonstrate over the theories of Hans Sedlmayr?

4. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?

5. What is Eco's principle statement in "Lady Barbara" and "Lumbar Support"?

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

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

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

9. What qualities must a movie present in order to attain cult status, according to Eco in "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage"?

10. How does semiotics assist in understanding language and communication, according to Eco?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Eco use Superman as a metaphor for in Section I - Chapter 1? What is a "Fortress of Solitude"?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Getty and Ringling Museums. Where are they located and by whom were they originated? Why does Eco discuss each?

Essay Topic 3

Define modus ponens and discuss the correlation between violence and reason. How does Eco suggest future violent events might be averted?

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