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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Eco describes hyper reality as a situation in which the real is portrayed through the what?
(a) Ultimate counterfeit.
(b) Creche.
(c) Horror vacui.
(d) Common opinion.

3. In "Striking at the Heart of the State," Eco insists that the truth of a communication lies in how it is ______ more so than the form, content, or vehicle of the message.
(a) Promoted.
(b) Expressed.
(c) Conveyed.
(d) Interpreted.

4. Marshall McLuhan suggests that the Middle Ages was characterized by the heavy emphasis on the formal study of what?
(a) Logic.
(b) Science.
(c) Geography.
(d) Math.

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

6. 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) Advanced weapons.
(b) A superpower.
(c) The plague.
(d) A tyrant.

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

8. What is the second 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 as a pretext.
(c) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(d) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.

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

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

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

12. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion," Eco suggests that the story of what heralds the return to religion?
(a) The Incredible Hulk.
(b) Captain America.
(c) Wonderwoman.
(d) Superman.

13. In "Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare" Eco writes that media employees are often hampered by the form of the media to the extent that it is not what?
(a) Disfigured by propaganda.
(b) An honest representation of reality.
(c) A pure communication between the advertizer and the audience.
(d) A pure communication between the author of an article and the reader.

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

15. When was 2001: A Space Odyssey released?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1972.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco discusses the current cultural fascination with the Middle Ages that he refers to as what?

2. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?

3. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?

4. Where was the first Six Flags established?

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

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