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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III Chapter 2 pgs 59-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What period followed the Middle Ages?
(a) The Late Mordern Era.
(b) The Electronic Age.
(c) The Early Modern Era.
(d) The Bronze Age.

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

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

4. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?
(a) Civilized.
(b) Humanized.
(c) Confined.
(d) Humiliated.

5. What does Eco define as the fear of open or white space that is remedied by filling an entire piece of art with excessive detail in a neurotic fashion?
(a) Psychopainthic.
(b) Particle overload.
(c) Brush mania.
(d) Horror vacui.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Disneyland Park located?

2. What does Eco assert that Disney suggests that the imitation of reality is so accurate that reality pales in comparison?

3. When was Superman created?

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

5. Eco discusses the current cultural fascination with the Middle Ages that he refers to as what?

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