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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The works of art within the Ringling Museum of Art are what?
(a) Enlarged.
(b) Authentic.
(c) Reproductions.
(d) Scale models.

2. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Crisis.
(c) Lonliness.
(d) Despair.

3. When was Superman created?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1923.

4. What does Eco define as mini representations of a particular location or scene?
(a) Crepes.
(b) Croquet.
(c) Chalice.
(d) Creche.

5. When did Jim Jones die?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1983.

6. What refers to an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychologists to aid a client or patient in problems of living?
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Physical therapy.
(c) Shock therapy.
(d) Psychotherapy.

7. Eco uses the story of Superman as an allegory of America and suggests that he has need of returning to what from time to time?
(a) "Moment of Sorrow."
(b) "Time of Joy."
(c) "Room of Silence."
(d) "Fortress of Solitude."

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

9. What does Eco assert that Disney suggests that the imitation of reality is so accurate that reality pales in comparison?
(a) Audio-astronomic technology.
(b) Auto-astronomic technology.
(c) Audio-animatronic technology.
(d) Auto-animatronic technology.

10. Eco asserts that nature is a victim of what by way of zoos and aquariums?
(a) Animal cruelty.
(b) Hyper reality.
(c) Consumerism.
(d) Entertainment.

11. What is the third type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(b) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(c) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(d) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.

12. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Savannah, Georgia.
(c) Tallahassee, Florida.
(d) Sarasota, Florida.

13. Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?
(a) Orson Welles.
(b) Stanley Kubrick.
(c) Victor Fleming.
(d) Alfred Hitchcock.

14. What is the ninth 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 of so-called Tradition.
(c) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(d) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.

15. What is the tenth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of national identities.
(b) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.
(c) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(d) The expectation of the Millennium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fake aspect was built to house the Ringling Museum of Art?

2. When was Che Guevara born?

3. Eco asserts that because of the multinational arrangement, there is no head of a particular government or country that can be toppled in order to change what?

4. Marshall McLuhan suggests that the Middle Ages was characterized by the heavy emphasis on the formal study of what?

5. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?

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