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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section V - Chapter 3 113 -132.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 of philological reconstruction.
(d) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.

2. In "Living in the New Middle Ages," Eco asserts that one of the hallmarks of the Middle Ages was the decline of a period of peace that was brought about by what?
(a) Advanced weapons.
(b) A superpower.
(c) A tyrant.
(d) The plague.

3. Where is the Walt Disney World Resort located?
(a) Key West, Florida.
(b) Tampa, Florida.
(c) Orlando, Florida.
(d) Palm Beach, Florida.

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

5. The works of art within the Ringling Museum of Art are what?
(a) Enlarged.
(b) Authentic.
(c) Reproductions.
(d) Scale models.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group based in Italy and active, via a number of political assassinations, during the "Years of Lead"?

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

3. Where was Jim Jones from?

4. Who created Superman?

5. What refers to a sovereign state which is viewed as comprising two or more nations?

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