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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section X Chapter 6 219-238.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) The "plank."
(b) The "cantilever."
(c) The "platform."
(d) The see-saw."

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

4. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?
(a) Willing participants.
(b) Strategic coaching.
(c) Paid athletes.
(d) Teamwork.

5. What is the first of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?
(a) God in the negative, through what he is not.
(b) God is perfect, people are not.
(c) God seeing all things at all times.
(d) God having attributes that humans do not possess.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" Eco again returns to the metaphor of Superman to what?

2. What is the second of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

3. Eco describes Sedlmayr's treatment of art as what?

4. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion," Eco suggests that the story of what heralds the return to religion?

5. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?

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