View a FREE sample

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 Superman created?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1932.

2. 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) Shakespeare
(b) Homer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

3. 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?
(a) "Time of Joy."
(b) "Moment of Sorrow."
(c) "Fortress of Solitude."
(d) "Room of Silence."

4. Marshall McLuhan suggests that the Middle Ages was characterized by the heavy emphasis on the formal study of what?
(a) Geography.
(b) Logic.
(c) Math.
(d) Science.

5. According to Eco, hyper reality serves to confuse the boundaries of what?
(a) Space and time.
(b) Ultimate counterfeit.
(c) Church and state.
(d) Horror vacui.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?

2. Eco describes hyper reality as a situation in which the real is portrayed through the what?

3. What is the name of the cult which Jim Jones founded?

4. When was Umberto Eco born?

5. What were a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group based in Italy and active, via a number of political assassinations, during the "Years of Lead"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 231 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample