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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. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?
(a) Barbarism.
(b) Chatter.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Entertainment.

2. What period followed the Middle Ages?
(a) The Electronic Age.
(b) The Bronze Age.
(c) The Early Modern Era.
(d) The Late Mordern Era.

3. Ego proposes that our fascination with the Middle Ages is related to a desire to do what?
(a) Understand the past.
(b) Examine our origins.
(c) Predict the future.
(d) Learn.

4. Eco writes, "Only when the song has become entirely unpleasant will the audience" do what?
(a) Stand and applaud.
(b) Tell their friends.
(c) Feel happy at last.
(d) Buy the album.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco uses the story of Superman as an allegory of America and suggests that he has need of returning to what from time to time?

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

3. Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?

4. Where is the art display of the two women described in Section I - Chapter 1, "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

5. Who directed Casablanca?

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