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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 believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?
(a) Common belief.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Psychic abilities.
(d) Revolutionary thought.

2. In "A Photograph" Eco references an incident in which a radio station captured the live experience of what?
(a) Being shut down by the police.
(b) An angry mob.
(c) The building burning down.
(d) An earthquake.

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

4. In "Two Families of Objects," Eco cites Karl Marx implying that markets are the very places in which the goods that are being sold do what?
(a) Become useful.
(b) Generate capitol.
(c) Find a home.
(d) Lose all value.

5. In what country did Che Guevara head a massive revolution?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Jamaica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

2. When did the Western Roman Empire fall?

3. Eco asserts that the Middle Ages were the beginning of several practices including modern armies, a national state, capitalistic economy, and what?

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

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

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