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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) Religion.
(c) Sports.
(d) Millenarian dynamics.

2. Eco proposes that tourists at Disney must have a certain passivity and behave as what in order to enjoy themselves?
(a) Consumers.
(b) Robots.
(c) Wild animals.
(d) Children.

3. When was Roland Barthes born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1915.

4. When were the earliest American blue jeans made?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1874.

5. Eco suggests that the multinational system is very stable and that the only danger to it is a situation of what?
(a) Economic hardship.
(b) Natural disaster.
(c) Mass terrorism.
(d) Enraged citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol universally recognized by all?

2. When did St. Thomas Aquinas die?

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. Eco puts forth three possibilities for the focus of expositions in the future. What is the second?

5. Where is the art display of the two women described in Section I - Chapter 1, "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

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