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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 asserts that the Middle Ages were the beginning of several practices including modern armies, a national state, capitalistic economy, and what?
(a) The "technological transformation of labor".
(b) The "age of robots."
(c) The "sanitation era."
(d) The "need for convenience."

2. Eco suggests of religion that these monuments that are being created are a form of timelessness that satisfies human desire for what?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Subordinateness.
(d) Immortality.

3. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?
(a) Analitics.
(b) Signotics.
(c) Semiotics.
(d) Metalogics.

4. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?
(a) Humiliated.
(b) Confined.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Humanized.

5. Where is Disneyland Park located?
(a) Anaheim, California.
(b) Bakersfield, California.
(c) San Diego, California.
(d) Long Beach, California.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When was Superman created?

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