View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco asserts that terrorism gives what a reason to exist?
(a) Gun stores.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Armed forces.
(d) Fear.

2. Eco describes Sedlmayr's treatment of art as what?
(a) Simplistic.
(b) Shallow.
(c) Rudimentary.
(d) Excessively reductionistic.

3. What is the tenth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The expectation of the Millennium.
(b) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.
(c) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(d) The Middle Ages of national identities.

4. How many inter-textual archetypes are used in Casablanca, according to Eco?
(a) 15.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

5. Whose theory asserts that non-material abstract (but substantial) forms (or ideas), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Homer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eco define as "the simplest narrative unit"?

2. What is the first of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

3. When was Marshall McLuhan born?

4. Where is the J. Paul Getty Museum located?

5. Eco asserts that America is a country that is fixated on realism, even to the point of obtaining "real" what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample