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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 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) Psychopainthic.
(c) Horror vacui.
(d) Brush mania.

2. What book of Marshall McLuhan's suggests that man has lost his center?
(a) Understanding The Human Mind.
(b) Understanding Media.
(c) Understanding Sport.
(d) Understanding Society.

3. Eco proposes that tourists at Disney must have a certain passivity and behave as what in order to enjoy themselves?
(a) Consumers.
(b) Children.
(c) Robots.
(d) Wild animals.

4. What does Eco define as "the simplest narrative unit"?
(a) Theme.
(b) Symbol.
(c) Motif.
(d) Paragraph.

5. Eco believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?
(a) Revolutionary thought.
(b) Common belief.
(c) Psychic abilities.
(d) Mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eco, hyper reality serves to confuse the boundaries of what?

2. Eco suggests that sports have a definitive healthy purpose, among them what?

3. Eco writes that the deployment of what "is religion, politics, ideology"?

4. What is the first realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

5. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?

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