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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. The two ideologies of progress cited by Eco in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" are suggested by the media to be the foundation for the re-birth of what?
(a) Materialistic-historical.
(b) Religion.
(c) Positivistic-technological.
(d) Negativistic-factual.
2. What does Eco suggest serve as a museum of memories for Superman?
(a) The city lights.
(b) Robots.
(c) Newspaper clippings.
(d) Figurines.
3. What is the ninth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.
(b) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(c) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.
(d) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
4. Eco believes that Sedlmayr's entire book exists to provide evidence of what?
(a) The human condition.
(b) A conclusion that has already been made in Sedlmayr's mind.
(c) Questions that exist within Sedlmayr's mind.
(d) Political conspiracy.
5. What is the first type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of the philosophia perennis.
(b) The Middle Ages as a pretext.
(c) The Middle Ages of Decadentism.
(d) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.
Short Answer Questions
1. Eco suggests of religion that these monuments that are being created are a form of timelessness that satisfies human desire for what?
2. What American film star was killed by the Manson family?
3. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?
4. 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?
5. What were a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group based in Italy and active, via a number of political assassinations, during the "Years of Lead"?
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