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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. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?
(a) Is left feeling hungry.
(b) Alienates himself.
(c) Consumes himself.
(d) Destroys his spirit.

2. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?
(a) Admiring sport.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Discussing sport.
(d) Coaching sport.

3. Eco suggests of religion that these monuments that are being created are a form of timelessness that satisfies human desire for what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Subordinateness.
(d) Knowledge.

4. St. Thomas Aquinas was revolutionary in the sense that he was able to do what?
(a) Unite different religions.
(b) Talk to god.
(c) Bring divergent thought together.
(d) See the future.

5. Eco concludes the book by discussing _____ and the messages that are being conveyed.
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Movies.
(d) Expositions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?

2. 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?

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

4. What refers to an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychologists to aid a client or patient in problems of living?

5. Eco refutes Foucault's concept of language as being what?

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