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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 Disneyland Park located?
(a) Bakersfield, California.
(b) Long Beach, California.
(c) Anaheim, California.
(d) San Diego, California.

2. What does Eco assert that Disney suggests that the imitation of reality is so accurate that reality pales in comparison?
(a) Audio-astronomic technology.
(b) Auto-astronomic technology.
(c) Audio-animatronic technology.
(d) Auto-animatronic technology.

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

4. Eco suggests of religion that these monuments that are being created are a form of timelessness that satisfies human desire for what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Subordinateness.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Immortality.

5. What fake aspect was built to house the Ringling Museum of Art?
(a) Ripley's Museums.
(b) The Palazzo.
(c) The Bellagio.
(d) The big top.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Umberto Eco born?

2. What refers to a series of wax museums found throughout the country that are famous for their attention to detail and for having some truly unique objects found nowhere else?

3. Where was the first Six Flags established?

4. What does Eco assert is the natural and final extension of photorealism?

5. Eco proposes that tourists at Disney must have a certain passivity and behave as what in order to enjoy themselves?

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