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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) Horror vacui.
(d) Church and state.

2. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?
(a) Teamwork.
(b) Willing participants.
(c) Paid athletes.
(d) Strategic coaching.

3. In "City of Robots," Eco asserts that in America there are cities that are created purely for what?
(a) Devastation.
(b) Hope.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Money making.

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

5. What famous work did Karl Marx write with Friedrich Engels?
(a) Notes on James Mill.
(b) The Poverty of Philosophy.
(c) The Philosophical Manifesto of the Historical School of Law.
(d) The Communist Manifesto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the first Six Flags established?

2. When was Che Guevara born?

3. When was St. Thomas Aquinas born?

4. Eco suggests that what implies having the conversation that compares the coding at the receiver with the coding at the source?

5. Eco suggests that power contains both elements of "repression" and excitation, power is "plural," and that power is what?

(see the answer key)

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