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

2. What does Eco assert that Disney suggests that the imitation of reality is so accurate that reality pales in comparison?
(a) Audio-astronomic technology.
(b) Auto-astronomic technology.
(c) Auto-animatronic technology.
(d) Audio-animatronic technology.

3. Whose theory asserts that non-material abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality?
(a) Homer.
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

4. What refers to an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychologists to aid a client or patient in problems of living?
(a) Shock therapy.
(b) Physical therapy.
(c) Psychotherapy.
(d) Hypnosis.

5. Eco suggests that in order to achieve cult status a movie "must provide a completely _____ world so that its fans can quote characters as if they were aspects of the fan's private sectarian world...".
(a) Imaginary.
(b) Detailed.
(c) Realistic.
(d) Furnished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eco define as mini representations of a particular location or scene?

2. What refers to a series of wax museums found throughout the country that are famous for their attention to detail and for having some truly unique objects found nowhere else?

3. When was Jim Jones born?

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

5. When was Superman created?

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