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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. When was Jim Jones born?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1931.
2. 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 seeing all things at all times.
(b) God is perfect, people are not.
(c) God having attributes that humans do not possess.
(d) God in the negative, through what he is not.
3. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Despair.
(b) Lonliness.
(c) Crisis.
(d) Enlightenment.
4. Eco asserts that America has its own "Fortresses of Solitude" and it is the realm in which what is found?
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Black holes.
(c) Hyper reality.
(d) Hermits.
5. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?
(a) Wiedersehen.
(b) Flughafen.
(c) Wunderkammern.
(d) Flugzeug.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Che Guevara from?
2. When was 2001: A Space Odyssey released?
3. What is the fifth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
4. In "Culture as a Show Business" Eco discusses the fact that culture until recently dictated that things must be what?
5. When was Che Guevara born?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the result of a multinational arrangement, according to Eco in "Striking at the Heart of the State"?
2. What does Eco propose about superpowers in "Living in the New Middle Ages"?
3. What practices arose during medieval times which Eco asserts are with us today?
4. What film is discussed in "The Multiplication of the Media"? What does Eco write about the film?
5. What is Eco's principle question regarding authenticity in art?
6. How is nature a victim of hyper reality to Eco? How is religion?
7. Describe the holographic display in Section I - Chapter 1. What does Eco suggest about holography?
8. What does Eco write of the authenticity of the Ringling Museum of Art? Where is it located?
9. How does Eco define the "neo-medieval wave" in Section III Chapter 2?
10. What is described in "Whose Side are the Orixa on?" What are Eco's conclusions?
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