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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI Chapter 6 239-268.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?
(a) God in the negative, through what he is not.
(b) God having attributes that humans do not possess.
(c) God is perfect, people are not.
(d) God seeing all things at all times.

2. When was Jim Jones born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1931.

3. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion," Eco suggests that the story of what heralds the return to religion?
(a) Wonderwoman.
(b) Superman.
(c) The Incredible Hulk.
(d) Captain America.

4. Eco writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?
(a) Consumes himself.
(b) Alienates himself.
(c) Destroys his spirit.
(d) Is left feeling hungry.

5. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?
(a) Analitics.
(b) Semiotics.
(c) Metalogics.
(d) Signotics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?

2. The Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to what century?

3. Eco discusses the current cultural fascination with the Middle Ages that he refers to as what?

4. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?

5. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?

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