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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a sovereign state which is viewed as comprising two or more nations?
(a) Companion state.
(b) Sister state.
(c) Multinational state.
(d) Partner state.

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

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

4. What does Eco suggest serve as a museum of memories for Superman?
(a) Figurines.
(b) Newspaper clippings.
(c) The city lights.
(d) Robots.

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

6. Eco discusses the current cultural fascination with the Middle Ages that he refers to as what?
(a) "Castle of wonder."
(b) "Round table insanity."
(c) "The royal inspiration."
(d) The "neo-medieval wave."

7. In "Living in the New Middle Ages," Eco asserts that one of the hallmarks of the Middle Ages was the decline of a period of peace that was brought about by what?
(a) A superpower.
(b) The plague.
(c) A tyrant.
(d) Advanced weapons.

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

9. Eco asserts that terrorism gives what a reason to exist?
(a) Armed forces.
(b) Fear.
(c) Gun stores.
(d) Optimism.

10. 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.

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

12. Marshall McLuhan suggests that the Middle Ages was characterized by the heavy emphasis on the formal study of what?
(a) Geography.
(b) Math.
(c) Science.
(d) Logic.

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

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

15. 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 so-called Tradition.
(b) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(c) The Middle Ages as a pretext.
(d) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What common contemporary phrase did Marshall McLuhan coin?

3. The works of art within the Ringling Museum of Art are what?

4. When was Superman created?

5. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?

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