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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco asserts that the Middle Ages were the beginning of several practices including modern armies, a national state, capitalistic economy, and what?
(a) The "age of robots."
(b) The "need for convenience."
(c) The "sanitation era."
(d) The "technological transformation of labor".

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

3. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?
(a) Humanized.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Confined.
(d) Civilized.

4. What period followed the Middle Ages?
(a) The Late Mordern Era.
(b) The Bronze Age.
(c) The Early Modern Era.
(d) The Electronic Age.

5. Marshall McLuhan states that the constant barrage of information leads to what?
(a) A slowing of the human thought process.
(b) A passive ingestion of media.
(c) A loss of self.
(d) An overabundance of trivial knowledge.

6. Where is Umberto Eco from?
(a) Hungary.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Poland.

7. 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 Romanticism.
(b) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(c) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(d) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.

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

9. 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 so-called Tradition.
(b) The Middle Ages of national identities.
(c) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(d) The expectation of the Millennium.

10. Eco suggests that what implies having the conversation that compares the coding at the receiver with the coding at the source?
(a) Mass media.
(b) Guerrilla warfare.
(c) International politics.
(d) Model of communication.

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

12. When was Jim Jones born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1929.

13. In "Whose Side are the Orixa on?" Eco describes sacred rites of whom?
(a) The Inca.
(b) The Congolese.
(c) The Afro-Brazilians.
(d) The Aztecs.

14. What book of Marshall McLuhan's suggests that man has lost his center?
(a) Understanding The Human Mind.
(b) Understanding Sport.
(c) Understanding Media.
(d) Understanding Society.

15. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?
(a) Positivistic-technological.
(b) Religion.
(c) Negativistic-factual.
(d) Materialistic-historical.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the second type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?

3. Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?

4. When did the Red Brigade, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnap the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, killing five men of his entourage and subsequently murdering him 54 days later?

5. Who created Superman?

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