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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IX Chapter 5 197- 218.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the second of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?
(a) God is perfect, people are not.
(b) God having attributes that humans do not possess.
(c) God seeing all things at all times.
(d) God in the negative, through what he is not.
2. How many inter-textual archetypes are used in Casablanca, according to Eco?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.
3. What does Eco define as the fear of open or white space that is remedied by filling an entire piece of art with excessive detail in a neurotic fashion?
(a) Particle overload.
(b) Horror vacui.
(c) Brush mania.
(d) Psychopainthic.
4. What sport was Eco apparently very bad at it but wanted to fit in the crowd and thus extolled his father to take him to the games?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Hockey.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Soccer.
5. Ego proposes that our fascination with the Middle Ages is related to a desire to do what?
(a) Understand the past.
(b) Learn.
(c) Examine our origins.
(d) Predict the future.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?
2. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco states that all of the objects for sale represent a kind of what?
3. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion," Eco suggests that the story of what heralds the return to religion?
4. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?
5. What is the fifth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
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