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

2. What refers to a sovereign state which is viewed as comprising two or more nations?
(a) Companion state.
(b) Sister state.
(c) Multinational state.
(d) Partner state.

3. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Crisis.
(b) Despair.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Lonliness.

4. What book of Hans Sedlmayr's is cited by Eco in the book?
(a) Art in Crisis: The Lost Center.
(b) The Quintessence of Riegl's Thought.
(c) The Subtleties of Modern Art.
(d) Toward a Rigorous Study of Art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the art display of the two women described in Section I - Chapter 1, "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

2. Where is Disneyland Park located?

3. What is the first of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

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

5. In "Two Families of Objects," what market does Eco refer to as a "temple" at which the semiotic signs of consumerism may be studied?

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