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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section X Chapter 6 219-238.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?
(a) Coaching sport.
(b) Admiring sport.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Discussing sport.

2. Where was Hans Sedlmayr born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Russia.
(c) England.
(d) Hungary.

3. When did Jim Jones die?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1978.

4. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" Eco again returns to the metaphor of Superman to what?
(a) A dog.
(b) America.
(c) A train.
(d) A car.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jim Jones' cult members commit mass suicide?

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 writes in "Sports Chatter," "On it and in it, the consumer civilization man actually" does what?

4. Eco believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?

5. According to Eco, spectator sports are "morally superior" to war because they only involve what?

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