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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section X Chapter 6 219-238.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?
(a) Positivistic-technological.
(b) Negativistic-factual.
(c) Materialistic-historical.
(d) Religion.

3. What book of Hans Sedlmayr's is cited by Eco in the book?
(a) Art in Crisis: The Lost Center.
(b) The Quintessence of Riegl's Thought.
(c) Toward a Rigorous Study of Art.
(d) The Subtleties of Modern Art.

4. Eco compares cults to what, which he asserts have existed at least since the time of Christ?
(a) Dictators.
(b) Millenarian dynamics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sports.

5. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?
(a) Negativistic-factual.
(b) Materialistic-historical.
(c) Positivistic-technological.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?

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?

3. What is the name of the cult which Jim Jones founded?

4. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?

5. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion," Eco suggests that the story of what heralds the return to religion?

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