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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI Chapter 6 239-268.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco proposes that tourists at Disney must have a certain passivity and behave as what in order to enjoy themselves?
(a) Consumers.
(b) Children.
(c) Wild animals.
(d) Robots.

2. When was Karl Marx born?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1818.

3. The Middle Ages was a period of European history from the 5th century to what century?
(a) 15th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 8th.

4. When did the Western Roman Empire fall?
(a) 324.
(b) 476.
(c) 241.
(d) 642.

5. When were the earliest American blue jeans made?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1874.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?

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

3. Eco argues that religion never left but what in fact happened was the increase of personal religious practice outside of what?

4. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?

5. Eco believes that Sedlmayr's entire book exists to provide evidence of what?

(see the answer key)

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