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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. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) Russia.
(b) England.
(c) Italy.
(d) Hungary.

2. 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 seeing all things at all times.
(b) God in the negative, through what he is not.
(c) God is perfect, people are not.
(d) God having attributes that humans do not possess.

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) The Subtleties of Modern Art.
(d) Toward a Rigorous Study of Art.

4. Eco believes that Sedlmayr's entire book exists to provide evidence of what?
(a) Political conspiracy.
(b) A conclusion that has already been made in Sedlmayr's mind.
(c) The human condition.
(d) Questions that exist within Sedlmayr's mind.

5. What refers to a medium that focuses on a single sense in order to foster a "high power of definition"?
(a) Dry medium.
(b) Hot medium.
(c) Wet medium.
(d) Cool medium.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Eco describes Sedlmayr's treatment of art as what?

3. When did Jim Jones die?

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

5. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" Eco again returns to the metaphor of Superman to what?

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