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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XIII Chapter 8 288- 307.

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 having attributes that humans do not possess.
(b) God in the negative, through what he is not.
(c) God seeing all things at all times.
(d) God is perfect, people are not.

2. Eco relates his experience of having the song "Lady Barbara" burst into his head to what?
(a) Heckling.
(b) Booing.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Anticipatory applause.

3. What is the first realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Sports and arenas.
(c) Art and museums.
(d) Religion.

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

5. What is the third realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) Art and museums.
(b) The theatre.
(c) Nature.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American film star was killed by the Manson family?

2. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?

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 sport was Eco apparently very bad at it but wanted to fit in the crowd and thus extolled his father to take him to the games?

5. Who publishes Superman Comics?

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