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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Whose Side are the Orixa on?" Eco describes sacred rites of whom?
(a) The Afro-Brazilians.
(b) The Aztecs.
(c) The Congolese.
(d) The Inca.

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

3. Eco compares cults to what, which he asserts have existed at least since the time of Christ?
(a) Dictators.
(b) Millenarian dynamics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sports.

4. Where is Disneyland Park located?
(a) Long Beach, California.
(b) Anaheim, California.
(c) San Diego, California.
(d) Bakersfield, California.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?

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

3. Where was Che Guevara from?

4. Eco argues that religion never left but what in fact happened was the increase of personal religious practice outside of what?

5. When did the Western Roman Empire fall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conclusions does Eco present in "Culture as a Show Business"?

2. What film is discussed in "The Multiplication of the Media"? What does Eco write about the film?

3. Why does Eco discuss the J. Paul Getty Museum? Where is it located?

4. What does Eco write of the authenticity of the Ringling Museum of Art? Where is it located?

5. What "ideologies of progress" does Eco describe in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

6. What is described in "Whose Side are the Orixa on?" What are Eco's conclusions?

7. In what way does Eco use Superman as an analogy in Section I - Chapter 1? What is a "Fortress of Solitude"?

8. What does Eco describe in the beginning of "Striking at the Heart of the State"?

9. Describe the holographic display in Section I - Chapter 1. What does Eco suggest about holography?

10. What is Eco's principle argument in "Living in the New Middle Ages"?

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