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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Disneyland Park located?
(a) Long Beach, California.
(b) San Diego, California.
(c) Bakersfield, California.
(d) Anaheim, California.

3. Eco asserts that America is a country that is fixated on realism, even to the point of obtaining "real" what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Concepts.
(c) Copies.
(d) Feelings.

4. Eco proposes that all use of hyper reality is an attempt to create a monument or a permanent structure that will allow for what?
(a) Education.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Explanation.

5. In addition to the organized religions, Eco proposes that there is also what for those who have been somewhat on the margins of society?
(a) Spiritual beliefs.
(b) Silent worship.
(c) Anonymous churches.
(d) A "new religiosity."

6. Eco creates a language for talking about communication transmission in which there is a source that sends out a signal via a transmitter through what?
(a) A channel.
(b) A sine wave.
(c) A wavelength.
(d) A transistor.

7. What term refers to a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Election.
(c) Peace treaty.
(d) Coup.

8. What is the third realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Nature.
(c) Art and museums.
(d) The theatre.

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

10. Where was Jim Jones from?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Iowa.

11. In "Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare" Eco writes that media employees are often hampered by the form of the media to the extent that it is not what?
(a) A pure communication between the advertizer and the audience.
(b) A pure communication between the author of an article and the reader.
(c) An honest representation of reality.
(d) Disfigured by propaganda.

12. What is the fourth 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 philological reconstruction.
(c) The Middle Ages of national identities.
(d) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.

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

14. Eco suggests of religion that these monuments that are being created are a form of timelessness that satisfies human desire for what?
(a) Subordinateness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Immortality.

15. Eco describes hyper reality as a situation in which the real is portrayed through the what?
(a) Creche.
(b) Ultimate counterfeit.
(c) Horror vacui.
(d) Common opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eco define as mini representations of a particular location or scene?

2. Where is Umberto Eco from?

3. Eco discusses the current cultural fascination with the Middle Ages that he refers to as what?

4. Where was Che Guevara from?

5. When did Jim Jones die?

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