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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VIII - Chapter 5 181 - 196.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ego proposes that our fascination with the Middle Ages is related to a desire to do what?
(a) Predict the future.
(b) Learn.
(c) Examine our origins.
(d) Understand the past.

2. What period followed the Middle Ages?
(a) The Early Modern Era.
(b) The Late Mordern Era.
(c) The Bronze Age.
(d) The Electronic Age.

3. What common contemporary phrase did Marshall McLuhan coin?
(a) The Global Village.
(b) Aerodynamics.
(c) Greenhouse Gases.
(d) The Coriolis Effect.

4. Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Victor Fleming.
(c) Orson Welles.
(d) Stanley Kubrick.

5. What is the fourth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(b) The Middle Ages of national identities.
(c) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(d) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?

2. When did the Red Brigade, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnap the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, killing five men of his entourage and subsequently murdering him 54 days later?

3. What were a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group based in Italy and active, via a number of political assassinations, during the "Years of Lead"?

4. What refers to a sovereign state which is viewed as comprising two or more nations?

5. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco states that all of the objects for sale represent a kind of what?

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