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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. Eco uses the story of Superman as an allegory of America and suggests that he has need of returning to what from time to time?
(a) "Room of Silence."
(b) "Time of Joy."
(c) "Moment of Sorrow."
(d) "Fortress of Solitude."

2. Eco suggests that the multinational system is very stable and that the only danger to it is a situation of what?
(a) Economic hardship.
(b) Enraged citizens.
(c) Natural disaster.
(d) Mass terrorism.

3. Eco suggests that what implies having the conversation that compares the coding at the receiver with the coding at the source?
(a) Mass media.
(b) Model of communication.
(c) Guerrilla warfare.
(d) International politics.

4. What is the fifth 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 as a barbaric age.
(d) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Eco asserts that America is a country that is fixated on realism, even to the point of obtaining "real" what?

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. 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?

4. What does Eco define as mini representations of a particular location or scene?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Eco's metaphor for Superman in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

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

3. How does Eco describe some American cities in "City of Robots"?

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

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

6. How does Eco define the "neo-medieval wave" in Section III Chapter 2?

7. What has the impact of hyper reality been on American society, according to Eco?

8. What is Eco's principle question regarding authenticity in art?

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

10. What is the result of a multinational arrangement, according to Eco in "Striking at the Heart of the State"?

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