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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where was the first Six Flags established?
(a) Gurnee, Illinois.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Denver, Colorado.
(d) Arlington, Texas.

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

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

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

8. What is the third realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Religion.
(c) The theatre.
(d) Art and museums.

9. 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.

10. Where is the J. Paul Getty Museum located?
(a) Malibu, California.
(b) Sacramento, California.
(c) Los Angeles, California.
(d) San Jose, California.

11. What period followed the Middle Ages?
(a) The Late Mordern Era.
(b) The Bronze Age.
(c) The Electronic Age.
(d) The Early Modern Era.

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

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

14. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?
(a) Humanized.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Confined.

15. What refers to an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychologists to aid a client or patient in problems of living?
(a) Psychotherapy.
(b) Physical therapy.
(c) Shock therapy.
(d) Hypnosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to the organized religions, Eco proposes that there is also what for those who have been somewhat on the margins of society?

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

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

4. When was Marshall McLuhan born?

5. The Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to what century?

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