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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. In "Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare" Eco writes that media employees are often hampered by the form of the media to the extent that it is not what?
(a) A pure communication between the author of an article and the reader.
(b) Disfigured by propaganda.
(c) A pure communication between the advertizer and the audience.
(d) An honest representation of reality.
2. What is the eighth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(b) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(c) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(d) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
3. Eco describes Sedlmayr's treatment of art as what?
(a) Rudimentary.
(b) Excessively reductionistic.
(c) Shallow.
(d) Simplistic.
4. What is the third type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(b) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(c) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(d) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
5. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion," Eco suggests that the story of what heralds the return to religion?
(a) The Incredible Hulk.
(b) Superman.
(c) Wonderwoman.
(d) Captain America.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the sixth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
2. When was Umberto Eco born?
3. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?
4. When did the Red Brigade, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnap the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, killing five men of his entourage and subsequently murdering him 54 days later?
5. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?
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