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

2. In "City of Robots," Eco asserts that in America there are cities that are created purely for what?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Devastation.
(c) Money making.
(d) Hope.

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

4. Eco asserts that America is a country that is fixated on realism, even to the point of obtaining "real" what?
(a) Concepts.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Copies.
(d) Feelings.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The works of art within the Ringling Museum of Art are what?

4. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?

5. According to Eco, hyper reality serves to confuse the boundaries of what?

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