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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 first realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Sports and arenas.
(c) Art and museums.
(d) Nature.

2. Eco suggests that the multinational system is very stable and that the only danger to it is a situation of what?
(a) Mass terrorism.
(b) Enraged citizens.
(c) Natural disaster.
(d) Economic hardship.

3. 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) Silent worship.
(d) A "new religiosity."

4. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?
(a) The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man.
(b) The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.
(c) Understanding Media.
(d) War and Peace in the Global Village.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Superman created?

2. Where is Umberto Eco from?

3. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco cites Karl Marx implying that markets are the very places in which the goods that are being sold do what?

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

5. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?

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