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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. What is the first type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.
(b) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.
(c) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(d) The Middle Ages as a pretext.

2. What is the first type of object Eco analyzes in "Two Families of Objects"?
(a) The significant object.
(b) The common object.
(c) The beautiful object.
(d) The antique object.

3. Eco suggests that what implies having the conversation that compares the coding at the receiver with the coding at the source?
(a) International politics.
(b) Model of communication.
(c) Guerrilla warfare.
(d) Mass media.

4. Eco creates a language for talking about communication transmission in which there is a source that sends out a signal via a transmitter through what?
(a) A transistor.
(b) A channel.
(c) A sine wave.
(d) A wavelength.

5. Where was Karl Marx born?
(a) Spain.
(b) Poland.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of Marshall McLuhan's suggests that man has lost his center?

2. What period followed the Middle Ages?

3. Eco suggests that the multinational system is very stable and that the only danger to it is a situation of what?

4. In what country did Che Guevara head a massive revolution?

5. What is the fifth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?

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