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

2. What does Eco assert is the natural and final extension of photorealism?
(a) Holography.
(b) Photography.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Sepiography.

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

4. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?
(a) Confined.
(b) Humanized.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Humiliated.

5. What does Eco define as mini representations of a particular location or scene?
(a) Chalice.
(b) Croquet.
(c) Crepes.
(d) Creche.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Che Guevara born?

2. Who publishes Superman Comics?

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

4. Eco suggests that the vital essence of sports becomes further removed by what?

5. Eco asserts that America is a country that is fixated on realism, even to the point of obtaining "real" what?

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