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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 does Eco define as the fear of open or white space that is remedied by filling an entire piece of art with excessive detail in a neurotic fashion?
(a) Horror vacui.
(b) Brush mania.
(c) Psychopainthic.
(d) Particle overload.

2. Who starred in Casablanca?
(a) Humphrey Bogart.
(b) James Dean.
(c) Burt Lancaster.
(d) Marvin Sales.

3. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?
(a) Flughafen.
(b) Wiedersehen.
(c) Flugzeug.
(d) Wunderkammern.

4. When were the earliest American blue jeans made?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1854.

5. What does Eco suggest serve as a museum of memories for Superman?
(a) The city lights.
(b) Robots.
(c) Figurines.
(d) Newspaper clippings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eco describe as "stereotyped situations derived from preceding textual tradition"?

2. 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?

3. Ego proposes that our fascination with the Middle Ages is related to a desire to do what?

4. What sport was Eco apparently very bad at it but wanted to fit in the crowd and thus extolled his father to take him to the games?

5. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?

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