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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. Eco suggests that power contains both elements of "repression" and excitation, power is "plural," and that power is what?
(a) Elemental.
(b) Epressed.
(c) Exercised.
(d) Engaging.

2. What book of Marshall McLuhan's is cited in "Cogito Interruptus"?
(a) The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.
(b) War and Peace in the Global Village.
(c) The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man.
(d) Understanding Media.

3. What is the first type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(b) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.
(c) The Middle Ages as a pretext.
(d) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.

4. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Hygiene.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Exercise.

5. Eco describes hyper reality as a situation in which the real is portrayed through the what?
(a) Horror vacui.
(b) Creche.
(c) Ultimate counterfeit.
(d) Common opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of medium focuses on low definition so that the received must fill in gaps on their own?

2. What refers to an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychologists to aid a client or patient in problems of living?

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

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

5. Eco compares cults to what, which he asserts have existed at least since the time of Christ?

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