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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI Chapter 6 239-268.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eco refer to as "data-structures for representing stereotyped situations"?
(a) Deja-vu.
(b) Identical-story.
(c) Common-frame.
(d) Reiteration.

2. Who starred in Casablanca?
(a) Humphrey Bogart.
(b) Burt Lancaster.
(c) James Dean.
(d) Marvin Sales.

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

4. What famous work did Karl Marx write with Friedrich Engels?
(a) The Communist Manifesto.
(b) The Poverty of Philosophy.
(c) Notes on James Mill.
(d) The Philosophical Manifesto of the Historical School of Law.

5. What is the third realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) The theatre.
(b) Nature.
(c) Religion.
(d) Art and museums.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a medium that focuses on a single sense in order to foster a "high power of definition"?

2. In "Whose Side are the Orixa on?" Eco describes sacred rites of whom?

3. 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?

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

5. Eco asserts that terrorism gives what a reason to exist?

(see the answer key)

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