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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section V - Chapter 3 113 -132.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ninth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(b) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(c) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.
(d) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.

2. Eco asserts that the Middle Ages were the beginning of several practices including modern armies, a national state, capitalistic economy, and what?
(a) The "sanitation era."
(b) The "technological transformation of labor".
(c) The "need for convenience."
(d) The "age of robots."

3. When was Superman created?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1922.

4. What term refers to a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time?
(a) Peace treaty.
(b) Election.
(c) Coup.
(d) Revolution.

5. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?
(a) Negativistic-factual.
(b) Religion.
(c) Materialistic-historical.
(d) Positivistic-technological.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eco argues that religion never left but what in fact happened was the increase of personal religious practice outside of what?

3. Eco asserts that terrorism gives what a reason to exist?

4. Eco suggests that the multinational system is very stable and that the only danger to it is a situation of what?

5. Who publishes Superman Comics?

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