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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Eco proposes that tourists at Disney must have a certain passivity and behave as what in order to enjoy themselves?
(a) Wild animals.
(b) Children.
(c) Consumers.
(d) Robots.

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

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

5. Where was Che Guevara from?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Peru.

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

7. What common contemporary phrase did Marshall McLuhan coin?
(a) Greenhouse Gases.
(b) The Coriolis Effect.
(c) The Global Village.
(d) Aerodynamics.

8. 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) Negativistic-factual.
(b) Positivistic-technological.
(c) Materialistic-historical.
(d) Religion.

9. Who publishes Superman Comics?
(a) Viz Media.
(b) DC Comics.
(c) IDW Publishing.
(d) AC Comics.

10. What fake aspect was built to house the Ringling Museum of Art?
(a) The big top.
(b) Ripley's Museums.
(c) The Palazzo.
(d) The Bellagio.

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

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

13. 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.

14. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Crisis.
(c) Lonliness.
(d) Despair.

15. 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 of philological reconstruction.
(b) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(c) The Middle Ages of national identities.
(d) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" Eco again returns to the metaphor of Superman to what?

2. What is the third realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

3. What is the second of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

4. What American film star was killed by the Manson family?

5. In what country did Che Guevara head a massive revolution?

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