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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. Eco compares cults to what, which he asserts have existed at least since the time of Christ?
(a) Millenarian dynamics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Sports.
(d) Dictators.

2. 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) A "new religiosity."
(c) Anonymous churches.
(d) Spiritual beliefs.

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

4. In "Whose Side are the Orixa on?" Eco describes sacred rites of whom?
(a) The Congolese.
(b) The Inca.
(c) The Afro-Brazilians.
(d) The Aztecs.

5. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1909.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco suggests that sports have a definitive healthy purpose, among them what?

2. When was Jim Jones born?

3. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?

4. What is the name of the cult which Jim Jones founded?

5. What is the second of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

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