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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 believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?
(a) Revolutionary thought.
(b) Psychic abilities.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Common belief.

2. Eco suggests that both Hans Sedlmayr and Marshall McLuhan use similar facts and arrive at what?
(a) Dead ends.
(b) Opposite conclusions.
(c) A preposterous opinion.
(d) The point where they started.

3. The two ideologies of progress cited by Eco in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" are suggested by the media to be the foundation for the re-birth of what?
(a) Materialistic-historical.
(b) Positivistic-technological.
(c) Religion.
(d) Negativistic-factual.

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

5. Eco suggests that sports is a form of what that serves to distract and create wasteful talk with no actual purpose or value?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Chatter.
(c) Barbarism.
(d) Therapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Whose Side are the Orixa on?" Eco describes sacred rites of whom?

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

3. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?

4. What refers to a medium that focuses on a single sense in order to foster a "high power of definition"?

5. When was Hans Sedlmayr born?

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