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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section V - Chapter 3 113 -132.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the art display of the two women described in Section I - Chapter 1, "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) The New York School of Holography.
(b) The New York School of Hyperbole.
(c) The New York School of Geology.
(d) The New York School of Geography.

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

3. The works of art within the Ringling Museum of Art are what?
(a) Authentic.
(b) Scale models.
(c) Enlarged.
(d) Reproductions.

4. Eco describes hyper reality as a situation in which the real is portrayed through the what?
(a) Creche.
(b) Horror vacui.
(c) Common opinion.
(d) Ultimate counterfeit.

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) Particle overload.
(b) Brush mania.
(c) Psychopainthic.
(d) Horror vacui.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Ringling Museum of Art located?

2. Where did Jim Jones' cult members commit mass suicide?

3. One of the effects of zoos and aquariums, according to Eco, is that animals have been erroneously what?

4. What period followed the Middle Ages?

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

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