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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. Eco writes that the deployment of what "is religion, politics, ideology"?
(a) Reality.
(b) Communication.
(c) Space.
(d) Time.

2. In "Culture as a Show Business" Eco discusses the fact that culture until recently dictated that things must be what?
(a) Truthful.
(b) Accurate.
(c) Hillarious.
(d) Serious.

3. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Hygiene.

4. The Getty Museum is described by Eco as maintaining a fierce discipline towards faithful historic presentation of authentic works of art in what way?
(a) The way they were meant to be enjoyed.
(b) The way the artist saw them.
(c) The context in which they were made.
(d) A manner that reflects the times.

5. Whose theory asserts that non-material abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco describes hyper reality as a situation in which the real is portrayed through the what?

2. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?

3. What is the first realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

4. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco states that all of the objects for sale represent a kind of what?

5. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?

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