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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. When was Che Guevara born?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1938.

2. In "Sports Chatter" Eco remarks that it would be easier to have a protest in what than a football field?
(a) A library.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) A church.

3. In "Living in the New Middle Ages," Eco asserts that one of the hallmarks of the Middle Ages was the decline of a period of peace that was brought about by what?
(a) Advanced weapons.
(b) A superpower.
(c) The plague.
(d) A tyrant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to the organized religions, Eco proposes that there is also what for those who have been somewhat on the margins of society?

2. In "Culture as a Show Business" Eco discusses the fact that culture until recently dictated that things must be what?

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

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?

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

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