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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. According to Eco, hyper reality serves to confuse the boundaries of what?
(a) Space and time.
(b) Ultimate counterfeit.
(c) Church and state.
(d) Horror vacui.

2. 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?
(a) Hockey.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Baseball.

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

4. Eco writes that the deployment of what "is religion, politics, ideology"?
(a) Communication.
(b) Space.
(c) Reality.
(d) Time.

5. The Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to what century?
(a) 15th.
(b) 8th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 7th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jim Jones' cult members commit mass suicide?

2. Eco states that Thomas had to unhook Aristotle's teachings from the use they were being put to by whom?

3. When classmates sent a naked girl into St. Thomas Aquinas' room when he was trying to become an abbot, what did he do?

4. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?

5. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?

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