Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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Travels in Hyper Reality: Essays Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XIII Chapter 8 288- 307.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A superpower.
(b) Advanced weapons.
(c) A tyrant.
(d) The plague.

2. What is a label formulated by US academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals?
(a) Neo-Jungianism.
(b) Industrialism.
(c) Mass-psychosis.
(d) Post-structuralism.

3. 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 philological reconstruction.
(b) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(c) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(d) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.

4. Where was Marshall McLuhan born?
(a) Toronto, Ontario.
(b) Edmonton, Alberta.
(c) Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
(d) Vancouver, British Columbia.

5. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" Eco again returns to the metaphor of Superman to what?
(a) America.
(b) A car.
(c) A dog.
(d) A train.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was 2001: A Space Odyssey released?

2. When was the first World's Fair or Universal Exhibition held?

3. When was Karl Marx born?

4. What book of Marshall McLuhan's suggests that man has lost his center?

5. In addition to the organized religions, Eco proposes that there is also what for those who have been somewhat on the margins of society?

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