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

2. The two ideologies of progress cited by Eco in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" are suggested by the media to be the foundation for the re-birth of what?
(a) Positivistic-technological.
(b) Religion.
(c) Materialistic-historical.
(d) Negativistic-factual.

3. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?
(a) 65 B.C.
(b) 72 A.D.
(c) 22 B.C.
(d) 12 A.D.

4. What is the first of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?
(a) God having attributes that humans do not possess.
(b) God in the negative, through what he is not.
(c) God is perfect, people are not.
(d) God seeing all things at all times.

5. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?
(a) A church.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) A library.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?

2. Sedlmayr explores the theme of the lost center through the changes in what over the years?

3. 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?

4. Eco argues that religion never left but what in fact happened was the increase of personal religious practice outside of what?

5. What was the Roman Colosseum used principally to host?

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