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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco uses the story of Superman as an allegory of America and suggests that he has need of returning to what from time to time?
(a) "Fortress of Solitude."
(b) "Room of Silence."
(c) "Time of Joy."
(d) "Moment of Sorrow."

2. Eco asserts that nature is a victim of what by way of zoos and aquariums?
(a) Animal cruelty.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Consumerism.
(d) Hyper reality.

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

4. 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 Curtain.
(b) The Red Brigades.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The Red Coats.

5. What does Eco define as mini representations of a particular location or scene?
(a) Chalice.
(b) Crepes.
(c) Croquet.
(d) Creche.

6. Eco believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?
(a) Revolutionary thought.
(b) Common belief.
(c) Psychic abilities.
(d) Mental illness.

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

8. In "City of Robots," Eco asserts that in America there are cities that are created purely for what?
(a) Money making.
(b) Devastation.
(c) Hope.
(d) Entertainment.

9. 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 transistor.
(b) A wavelength.
(c) A channel.
(d) A sine wave.

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

11. What is the first of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?
(a) God seeing all things at all times.
(b) God in the negative, through what he is not.
(c) God is perfect, people are not.
(d) God having attributes that humans do not possess.

12. Eco suggests that the multinational system is very stable and that the only danger to it is a situation of what?
(a) Enraged citizens.
(b) Economic hardship.
(c) Mass terrorism.
(d) Natural disaster.

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

14. When did the Red Brigade, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnap the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, killing five men of his entourage and subsequently murdering him 54 days later?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1971.

15. 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 as a barbaric age.
(b) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(c) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(d) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eco asserts that terrorism gives what a reason to exist?

3. What is the name of the cult which Jim Jones founded?

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

5. Where was Jim Jones from?

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