View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the J. Paul Getty Museum located?
(a) Sacramento, California.
(b) Malibu, California.
(c) San Jose, California.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

2. Who directed Casablanca?
(a) Michael Curtiz.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) George Stevens.
(d) George Stevens.

3. What does Eco assert is the natural and final extension of photorealism?
(a) Holography.
(b) Photography.
(c) Sepiography.
(d) Advertising.

4. Eco asserts that the Middle Ages were the beginning of several practices including modern armies, a national state, capitalistic economy, and what?
(a) The "need for convenience."
(b) The "sanitation era."
(c) The "age of robots."
(d) The "technological transformation of labor".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Language, Power, Force" Eco describes a lecture given by Roland Barthes on the subject of what?

3. What is the third type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?

4. 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?

5. When did the Western Roman Empire fall?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 258 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample