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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IX Chapter 5 197- 218.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second realm of hyper reality discussed by Eco in "Travels in Hyper Reality"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Art and museums.
(c) Religion.
(d) Television.

2. Eco suggests that engaging in sport is now confused with what?
(a) Discussing sport.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Coaching sport.
(d) Admiring sport.

3. When did construction start on the Roman Colosseum?
(a) 72 A.D.
(b) 65 B.C.
(c) 12 A.D.
(d) 22 B.C.

4. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?
(a) Analitics.
(b) Metalogics.
(c) Signotics.
(d) Semiotics.

5. Eco states that spectator sports are a form of what, which like war, allows the aggressive impulses to be discharged?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Hygiene.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What refers to a sovereign state which is viewed as comprising two or more nations?

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

4. Marshall McLuhan states that the constant barrage of information leads to what?

5. When did the Red Brigade, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnap the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, killing five men of his entourage and subsequently murdering him 54 days later?

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