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

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

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VI - Chapter 4 133-158.

Multiple Choice 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"?
(a) The Red Brigades.
(b) The Red Coats.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The Red Curtain.

2. In addition to the organized religions, Eco proposes that there is also what for those who have been somewhat on the margins of society?
(a) Anonymous churches.
(b) Spiritual beliefs.
(c) A "new religiosity."
(d) Silent worship.

3. What refers to a sovereign state which is viewed as comprising two or more nations?
(a) Multinational state.
(b) Sister state.
(c) Companion state.
(d) Partner state.

4. In "Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare" Eco writes that media employees are often hampered by the form of the media to the extent that it is not what?
(a) An honest representation of reality.
(b) Disfigured by propaganda.
(c) A pure communication between the author of an article and the reader.
(d) A pure communication between the advertizer and the audience.

5. Eco asserts that America is a country that is fixated on realism, even to the point of obtaining "real" what?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Copies.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Concepts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created Superman?

2. When was Che Guevara born?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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