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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 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?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Hockey.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Soccer.

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

3. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion," Eco suggests that the story of what heralds the return to religion?
(a) The Incredible Hulk.
(b) Captain America.
(c) Superman.
(d) Wonderwoman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?

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

3. Where did Jim Jones' cult members commit mass suicide?

4. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?

5. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?

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