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

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

3. What is the name of the cult which Jim Jones founded?
(a) The People's Temple.
(b) The Commoner's Church.
(c) The Temple of Peace.
(d) The Church of Abraham.

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?
(a) The "plank."
(b) The see-saw."
(c) The "platform."
(d) The "cantilever."

5. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?
(a) A preposterous opinion.
(b) The point where they started.
(c) Opposite conclusions.
(d) Dead ends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jim Jones from?

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

3. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?

4. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?

5. Hans Sedlmayr was a University Professor of Art History where?

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