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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. Eco compares cults to what, which he asserts have existed at least since the time of Christ?
(a) Dictators.
(b) Millenarian dynamics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sports.

2. In "Striking at the Heart of the State," Eco insists that the truth of a communication lies in how it is ______ more so than the form, content, or vehicle of the message.
(a) Expressed.
(b) Conveyed.
(c) Promoted.
(d) Interpreted.

3. What is the second type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(b) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(c) The Middle Ages as a pretext.
(d) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.

4. Who starred in Casablanca?
(a) Humphrey Bogart.
(b) Marvin Sales.
(c) Burt Lancaster.
(d) James Dean.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jim Jones from?

2. Eco writes, "Only when the song has become entirely unpleasant will the audience" do what?

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

4. Eco argues that religion never left but what in fact happened was the increase of personal religious practice outside of what?

5. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?

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