2. 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) Audio-astronomic technology.
(c) Audio-animatronic technology.
(d) Auto-astronomic technology.

3. 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) Anonymous churches.
(c) Silent worship.
(d) A "new religiosity."

4. 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) Peace treaty.
(c) Election.
(d) Revolution.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What were a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group based in Italy and active, via a number of political assassinations, during the "Years of Lead"?
(a) The Red Coats.
(b) The Red Curtain.
(c) The Red Brigades.
(d) The Red Cross.

15. What American film star was killed by the Manson family?
(a) Bernard Crowe.
(b) Sharon Tate.
(c) Leno LaBianca.
(d) Gary Hinman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eco define as the fear of open or white space that is remedied by filling an entire piece of art with excessive detail in a neurotic fashion?

2. Where is Umberto Eco from?

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

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

5. What book of Marshall McLuhan's suggests that man has lost his center?

(see the answer keys)

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