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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. When was Marshall McLuhan born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1899.

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

3. 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?
(a) Brush mania.
(b) Horror vacui.
(c) Particle overload.
(d) Psychopainthic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?

2. Eco believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?

3. Where is Umberto Eco from?

4. The works of art within the Ringling Museum of Art are what?

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

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