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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI Chapter 6 239-268.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Despair.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Lonliness.
(d) Crisis.

2. Where did Jim Jones' cult members commit mass suicide?
(a) Waco, Texas.
(b) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(c) Jonestown, Guyana.
(d) Lima, Peru.

3. Who starred in Casablanca?
(a) Marvin Sales.
(b) Burt Lancaster.
(c) James Dean.
(d) Humphrey Bogart.

4. What is the third type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(b) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(c) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(d) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.

5. When did Jim Jones die?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1978.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?

2. What does Eco assert is the natural and final extension of photorealism?

3. Where is the art display of the two women described in Section I - Chapter 1, "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

4. What famous work did Karl Marx write with Friedrich Engels?

5. What is a label formulated by US academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals?

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