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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 second of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?
(a) God having attributes that humans do not possess.
(b) God is perfect, people are not.
(c) God seeing all things at all times.
(d) God in the negative, through what he is not.

2. When did the Western Roman Empire fall?
(a) 642.
(b) 324.
(c) 476.
(d) 241.

3. Where is Umberto Eco from?
(a) Poland.
(b) France.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Italy.

4. What is the fifth 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 of the philosophia perennis.
(c) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(d) The Middle Ages as a pretext.

5. Who publishes Superman Comics?
(a) Viz Media.
(b) IDW Publishing.
(c) AC Comics.
(d) DC Comics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jim Jones die?

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. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?

4. Where did Jim Jones' cult members commit mass suicide?

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

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