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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II - Chapter I pages 31-58.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the J. Paul Getty Museum located?
(a) Los Angeles, California.
(b) Sacramento, California.
(c) San Jose, California.
(d) Malibu, California.

2. What does Eco suggest serve as a museum of memories for Superman?
(a) Robots.
(b) Figurines.
(c) The city lights.
(d) Newspaper clippings.

3. Eco asserts that nature is a victim of what by way of zoos and aquariums?
(a) Animal cruelty.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Consumerism.
(d) Hyper reality.

4. The works of art within the Ringling Museum of Art are what?
(a) Reproductions.
(b) Authentic.
(c) Scale models.
(d) Enlarged.

5. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?
(a) Metalogics.
(b) Signotics.
(c) Analitics.
(d) Semiotics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Superman created?

2. What does Eco define as the fear of open or white space that is remedied by filling an entire piece of art with excessive detail in a neurotic fashion?

3. Where was the first Six Flags established?

4. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?

5. Eco proposes that all use of hyper reality is an attempt to create a monument or a permanent structure that will allow for what?

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