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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IV Chapter 3 - 87-112.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?
(a) Psychic abilities.
(b) Revolutionary thought.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Common belief.

2. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Despair.
(b) Crisis.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Lonliness.

3. When did the Western Roman Empire fall?
(a) 324.
(b) 642.
(c) 476.
(d) 241.

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

5. Eco proposes that all use of hyper reality is an attempt to create a monument or a permanent structure that will allow for what?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Education.
(d) Explanation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who publishes Superman Comics?

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

3. When did Jim Jones die?

4. Where is the art display of the two women described in Section I - Chapter 1, "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

5. What fake aspect was built to house the Ringling Museum of Art?

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