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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IV Chapter 3 - 87-112.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the seventh type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.
(b) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(c) The Middle Ages as a pretext.
(d) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.

2. Eco argues that religion never left but what in fact happened was the increase of personal religious practice outside of what?
(a) Conventional religion.
(b) Churches.
(c) God's view.
(d) Popular culture.

3. Eco believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?
(a) Psychic abilities.
(b) Revolutionary thought.
(c) Common belief.
(d) Mental illness.

4. Eco describes hyper reality as a situation in which the real is portrayed through the what?
(a) Creche.
(b) Horror vacui.
(c) Common opinion.
(d) Ultimate counterfeit.

5. Who publishes Superman Comics?
(a) IDW Publishing.
(b) DC Comics.
(c) Viz Media.
(d) AC Comics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the first Six Flags established?

2. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?

3. The Getty Museum is described by Eco as maintaining a fierce discipline towards faithful historic presentation of authentic works of art in what way?

4. What does Eco define as the fear of open or white space that is remedied by filling an entire piece of art with excessive detail in a neurotic fashion?

5. 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?

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