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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. Where is Disneyland Park located?
(a) Anaheim, California.
(b) Long Beach, California.
(c) San Diego, California.
(d) Bakersfield, California.

2. Eco suggests of religion that these monuments that are being created are a form of timelessness that satisfies human desire for what?
(a) Immortality.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Subordinateness.
(d) Happiness.

3. Eco asserts that the Middle Ages were the beginning of several practices including modern armies, a national state, capitalistic economy, and what?
(a) The "sanitation era."
(b) The "age of robots."
(c) The "technological transformation of labor".
(d) The "need for convenience."

4. 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) Positivistic-technological.
(b) Materialistic-historical.
(c) Negativistic-factual.
(d) Religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Eco asserts that America has its own "Fortresses of Solitude" and it is the realm in which what is found?

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

5. What period followed the Middle Ages?

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