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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 type of medium focuses on low definition so that the received must fill in gaps on their own?
2. Eco suggests that it is the creative interplay of the signs that is what, in "Language, Power, Force"?
3. Hans Sedlmayr was a University Professor of Art History where?
4. 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?
5. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What conclusions does Eco come to regarding the definition of power in "Language, Power, Force"?
2. How does semiotics assist in understanding language and communication, according to Eco?
3. How does Eco relate sports to culture and entertainment in "Sports Chatter"?
4. How does Eco propose that one must free oneself from the confines of language?
5. How and from whom did St. Thomas unlock the secrets of reason, according to Eco?
6. Why was St. Thomas revolutionary, according to Eco?
7. How does Eco refute the theory of communication by Marshall McLuhan?
8. Whose lecture does Eco discuss in "Language, Power, Force"? Why?
9. How does Hans Sedlmayr examine the theme of man's lost center?
10. Why does Eco maintain sports exist today primarily? How are sports like wax museums?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define modus ponens and discuss the correlation between violence and reason. How does Eco suggest future violent events might be averted?
Essay Topic 2
Define and discuss the Middle Ages. What centuries are included in the Middle Ages? What brought about this period of history?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the origins and evolution of sport in American society and culture. What impact did the introduction of sports press have on sport, according to Eco?
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