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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VI - Chapter 4 133-158.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco argues that religion never left but what in fact happened was the increase of personal religious practice outside of what?
(a) Churches.
(b) Conventional religion.
(c) God's view.
(d) Popular culture.

2. What is the seventh type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(b) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(c) The Middle Ages as a pretext.
(d) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.

3. Where is the art display of the two women described in Section I - Chapter 1, "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) The New York School of Holography.
(b) The New York School of Geology.
(c) The New York School of Geography.
(d) The New York School of Hyperbole.

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 the philosophia perennis.
(b) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(c) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(d) The Middle Ages as a pretext.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What period followed the Middle Ages?

4. Where is Umberto Eco from?

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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