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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 second 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 the philosophia perennis.
(c) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(d) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.

3. Eco asserts that because of the multinational arrangement, there is no head of a particular government or country that can be toppled in order to change what?
(a) The military.
(b) The status quo.
(c) The arts world.
(d) The family unit.

4. What is the tenth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The expectation of the Millennium.
(b) The Middle Ages of national identities.
(c) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(d) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.

5. 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 is perfect, people are not.
(b) God having attributes that humans do not possess.
(c) God in the negative, through what he is not.
(d) God seeing all things at all times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco asserts that nature is a victim of what by way of zoos and aquariums?

2. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?

3. Where was Che Guevara from?

4. When did the Western Roman Empire fall?

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

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