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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. 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 in the negative, through what he is not.
(c) God is perfect, people are not.
(d) God seeing all things at all times.

2. Eco asserts that because of the multinational arrangement, there is no head of a particular government or country that can be toppled in order to change what?
(a) The military.
(b) The status quo.
(c) The arts world.
(d) The family unit.

3. The Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to what century?
(a) 7th.
(b) 8th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 6th.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion," Eco suggests that the story of what heralds the return to religion?

2. What is the second realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?

3. In "City of Robots," Eco asserts that in America there are cities that are created purely for what?

4. What book of Marshall McLuhan's suggests that man has lost his center?

5. The Getty Museum is described by Eco as maintaining a fierce discipline towards faithful historic presentation of authentic works of art in what way?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is American culture today unlike the Middle Ages, according to Eco?

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

3. What is a "real hero" according to Eco in "Why are They Laughing in Those Cages?"

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

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

6. Who is the focus of the essay "The Suicides at the Temple"? What is Eco's conclusion of cults?

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

8. What practices arose during medieval times which Eco asserts are with us today?

9. What categories does God fall into, according to Eco?

10. What does Eco write of American realism in Section I - Chapter 1?

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