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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III Chapter 2 pgs 59-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?
(a) Savannah, Georgia.
(b) Sarasota, Florida.
(c) Tallahassee, Florida.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

2. What is the first type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.
(b) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.
(c) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(d) The Middle Ages as a pretext.

3. What is the eighth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(b) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(c) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(d) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.

4. Eco asserts that America has its own "Fortresses of Solitude" and it is the realm in which what is found?
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Black holes.
(c) Hermits.
(d) Hyper reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Living in the New Middle Ages," Eco asserts that one of the hallmarks of the Middle Ages was the decline of a period of peace that was brought about by what?

2. In "City of Robots," Eco asserts that in America there are cities that are created purely for what?

3. What is the tenth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?

4. When was Superman created?

5. What is the third realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

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