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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 is the ninth 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 Romanticism.
(d) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.

2. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?
(a) 65 B.C.
(b) 12 A.D.
(c) 22 B.C.
(d) 72 A.D.

3. Eco asserts that sport now exists mainly for what reasons?
(a) Physical.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Economic.

4. Eco suggests that it is the creative interplay of the signs that is what, in "Language, Power, Force"?
(a) Emancipatory.
(b) Elevating.
(c) Enlightening.
(d) Elemental.

5. Eco relates his experience of having the song "Lady Barbara" burst into his head to what?
(a) Heckling.
(b) Booing.
(c) Anticipatory applause.
(d) Laughter.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The two ideologies of progress cited by Eco in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" are suggested by the media to be the foundation for the re-birth of what?

4. The Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to what century?

5. Who publishes Superman Comics?

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