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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. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?
(a) Materialistic-historical.
(b) Religion.
(c) Negativistic-factual.
(d) Positivistic-technological.

2. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?
(a) Wunderkammern.
(b) Flughafen.
(c) Flugzeug.
(d) Wiedersehen.

3. When was Superman created?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1932.

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

5. What refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all?
(a) Prototype.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Inter-textual truth.
(d) Archetype.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?

2. Eco suggests that power contains both elements of "repression" and excitation, power is "plural," and that power is what?

3. What American film star was killed by the Manson family?

4. What term refers to a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time?

5. Where is Umberto Eco from?

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