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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XIII Chapter 8 288- 307.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group based in Italy and active, via a number of political assassinations, during the "Years of Lead"?
(a) The Red Brigades.
(b) The Red Coats.
(c) The Red Curtain.
(d) The Red Cross.

2. What device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation was Leon Foucault responsible for?
(a) Foucault's Elliptical.
(b) Foucault's Swing.
(c) Foucault's Merry-go-round.
(d) Foucault's Pendulum.

3. Eco suggests that what implies having the conversation that compares the coding at the receiver with the coding at the source?
(a) International politics.
(b) Mass media.
(c) Guerrilla warfare.
(d) Model of communication.

4. Eco asserts in discussing Jim Jones that cults are inevitably formed in a time of what?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Despair.
(c) Crisis.
(d) Lonliness.

5. Where is the Walt Disney World Resort located?
(a) Palm Beach, Florida.
(b) Tampa, Florida.
(c) Key West, Florida.
(d) Orlando, Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. When classmates sent a naked girl into St. Thomas Aquinas' room when he was trying to become an abbot, what did he do?

2. What sport was Eco apparently very bad at it but wanted to fit in the crowd and thus extolled his father to take him to the games?

3. When was the first World's Fair or Universal Expo held?

4. Where was Marshall McLuhan born?

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

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