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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eco assert that Disney suggests that the imitation of reality is so accurate that reality pales in comparison?
(a) Auto-astronomic technology.
(b) Auto-animatronic technology.
(c) Audio-astronomic technology.
(d) Audio-animatronic technology.

2. What is the eighth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(b) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(c) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(d) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.

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

4. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?
(a) Wiedersehen.
(b) Flughafen.
(c) Flugzeug.
(d) Wunderkammern.

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

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

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

8. When was Che Guevara born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1933.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?

4. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?

5. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?

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