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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. In addition to the organized religions, Eco proposes that there is also what for those who have been somewhat on the margins of society?
(a) Spiritual beliefs.
(b) Anonymous churches.
(c) A "new religiosity."
(d) Silent worship.

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

3. What is the seventh type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(b) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(c) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.
(d) The Middle Ages as a pretext.

4. When was Superman created?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1922.

5. What is the name of the cult which Jim Jones founded?
(a) The People's Temple.
(b) The Commoner's Church.
(c) The Church of Abraham.
(d) The Temple of Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?

2. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?

3. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?

4. When was Karl Marx born?

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

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