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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IV Chapter 3 - 87-112.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "City of Robots," Eco asserts that in America there are cities that are created purely for what?
(a) Devastation.
(b) Entertainment.
(c) Money making.
(d) Hope.

2. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Crisis.
(b) Despair.
(c) Lonliness.
(d) Enlightenment.

3. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?
(a) Metalogics.
(b) Analitics.
(c) Signotics.
(d) Semiotics.

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-astronomic technology.
(c) Auto-animatronic technology.
(d) Audio-animatronic technology.

5. What does Eco assert is the natural and final extension of photorealism?
(a) Sepiography.
(b) Photography.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Holography.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Disneyland Park located?

2. What is the tenth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?

3. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?

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

5. Eco proposes that all use of hyper reality is an attempt to create a monument or a permanent structure that will allow for what?

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