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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. When was Jim Jones born?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1929.

2. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?
(a) Willing participants.
(b) Paid athletes.
(c) Strategic coaching.
(d) Teamwork.

3. In addition to the organized religions, Eco proposes that there is also what for those who have been somewhat on the margins of society?
(a) Silent worship.
(b) Spiritual beliefs.
(c) A "new religiosity."
(d) Anonymous churches.

4. Eco describes Sedlmayr's treatment of art as what?
(a) Simplistic.
(b) Excessively reductionistic.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Rudimentary.

5. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Crisis.
(b) Despair.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Lonliness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eco compares cults to what, which he asserts have existed at least since the time of Christ?

3. Eco suggests that the vital essence of sports becomes further removed by what?

4. Sedlmayr asserts that what is a rejection of the upward thrust of other buildings and implies that it means a disconnection from the earth?

5. When did Jim Jones die?

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