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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) A tyrant.
(c) The plague.
(d) Advanced weapons.

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

4. When was Umberto Eco born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1932.

5. Where is the Walt Disney World Resort located?
(a) Palm Beach, Florida.
(b) Tampa, Florida.
(c) Key West, Florida.
(d) Orlando, Florida.

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

7. What is the sixth 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 so-called Tradition.
(c) The Middle Ages of national identities.
(d) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.

8. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?
(a) Negativistic-factual.
(b) Materialistic-historical.
(c) Religion.
(d) Positivistic-technological.

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

10. What does Eco assert is the natural and final extension of photorealism?
(a) Holography.
(b) Sepiography.
(c) Photography.
(d) Advertising.

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

12. Where did Jim Jones' cult members commit mass suicide?
(a) Lima, Peru.
(b) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(c) Jonestown, Guyana.
(d) Waco, Texas.

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

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

15. The Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to what century?
(a) 15th.
(b) 8th.
(c) 7th.
(d) 6th.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eco believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?

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

4. When did Jim Jones die?

5. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?

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