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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 sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Chatter.
(d) Barbarism.

2. The two ideologies of progress cited by Eco in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" are suggested by the media to be the foundation for the re-birth of what?
(a) Negativistic-factual.
(b) Religion.
(c) Positivistic-technological.
(d) Materialistic-historical.

3. Eco describes Sedlmayr's treatment of art as what?
(a) Excessively reductionistic.
(b) Rudimentary.
(c) Simplistic.
(d) Shallow.

4. In addition to the organized religions, Eco proposes that there is also what for those who have been somewhat on the margins of society?
(a) Silent worship.
(b) Spiritual beliefs.
(c) A "new religiosity."
(d) Anonymous churches.

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 having attributes that humans do not possess.
(b) God seeing all things at all times.
(c) God is perfect, people are not.
(d) God in the negative, through what he is not.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?

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

3. What was the Roman Colosseum used principally to host?

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

5. Eco asserts that sport now exists mainly for what reasons?

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