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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IX Chapter 5 197- 218.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third 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 as a barbaric age.
(c) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(d) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.

2. Where did Jim Jones' cult members commit mass suicide?
(a) Waco, Texas.
(b) Jonestown, Guyana.
(c) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(d) Lima, Peru.

3. Eco proposes that all use of hyper reality is an attempt to create a monument or a permanent structure that will allow for what?
(a) Explanation.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Education.
(d) Admiration.

4. What is the first realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) Sports and arenas.
(b) Nature.
(c) Religion.
(d) Art and museums.

5. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?
(a) Is left feeling hungry.
(b) Destroys his spirit.
(c) Consumes himself.
(d) Alienates himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to what century?

2. What is the second realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

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

4. Eco writes that the deployment of what "is religion, politics, ideology"?

5. What were a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group based in Italy and active, via a number of political assassinations, during the "Years of Lead"?

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