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

2. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?
(a) War and Peace in the Global Village.
(b) The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man.
(c) Understanding Media.
(d) The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.

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

4. Sedlmayr explores the theme of the lost center through the changes in what over the years?
(a) Art.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Technology.
(d) Politics.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?

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

4. Eco believes that Sedlmayr's entire book exists to provide evidence of what?

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

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