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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 discusses the current cultural fascination with the Middle Ages that he refers to as what?
(a) "The royal inspiration."
(b) "Round table insanity."
(c) "Castle of wonder."
(d) The "neo-medieval wave."

2. When was the film Casablanca released?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1945.

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

4. Eco proposes that all use of hyper reality is an attempt to create a monument or a permanent structure that will allow for what?
(a) Education.
(b) Explanation.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Immortality.

5. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Chatter.
(c) Barbarism.
(d) Therapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco asserts that terrorism gives what a reason to exist?

2. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?

3. 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?

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

5. According to Eco, language encodes power because it forces one to use already formulated what?

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