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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The two ideologies of progress cited by Eco in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" are suggested by the media to be the foundation for the re-birth of what?
(a) Materialistic-historical.
(b) Negativistic-factual.
(c) Religion.
(d) Positivistic-technological.

3. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?
(a) Signotics.
(b) Analitics.
(c) Metalogics.
(d) Semiotics.

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

5. What is the first type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(b) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.
(c) The Middle Ages as a pretext.
(d) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.

6. Eco asserts that America has its own "Fortresses of Solitude" and it is the realm in which what is found?
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Hyper reality.
(c) Hermits.
(d) Black holes.

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. Who created Superman?
(a) Gail Simone.
(b) Darwyn Cooke.
(c) Jerry Siegal.
(d) Mike Mignola.

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

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

11. What is the eighth 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 as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(c) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(d) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.

12. What refers to a series of wax museums found throughout the country that are famous for their attention to detail and for having some truly unique objects found nowhere else?
(a) Science Museums.
(b) Hall's of Fame.
(c) Ripley's Museums.
(d) Natural History Museums.

13. Ego proposes that our fascination with the Middle Ages is related to a desire to do what?
(a) Understand the past.
(b) Learn.
(c) Predict the future.
(d) Examine our origins.

14. When was Marshall McLuhan born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1899.

15. 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) International politics.
(c) Model of communication.
(d) Guerrilla warfare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco describes hyper reality as a situation in which the real is portrayed through the what?

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

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

4. When did Jim Jones die?

5. Where was Che Guevara from?

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