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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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 Coats.
(b) The Red Brigades.
(c) The Red Curtain.
(d) The Red Cross.

2. In what country did Che Guevara head a massive revolution?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Argentina.

3. What ideology of progress is focused on improving society by means of revolution?
(a) Materialistic-historical.
(b) Positivistic-technological.
(c) Religion.
(d) Negativistic-factual.

4. 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 Geology.
(b) The New York School of Hyperbole.
(c) The New York School of Holography.
(d) The New York School of Geography.

5. What is the fifth 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 of Romanticism.
(c) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(d) The Middle Ages as a pretext.

6. In "Striking at the Heart of the State," Eco insists that the truth of a communication lies in how it is ______ more so than the form, content, or vehicle of the message.
(a) Promoted.
(b) Expressed.
(c) Conveyed.
(d) Interpreted.

7. When was Superman created?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1917.

8. The Getty Museum is described by Eco as maintaining a fierce discipline towards faithful historic presentation of authentic works of art in what way?
(a) The context in which they were made.
(b) A manner that reflects the times.
(c) The way they were meant to be enjoyed.
(d) The way the artist saw them.

9. Eco argues that religion never left but what in fact happened was the increase of personal religious practice outside of what?
(a) God's view.
(b) Conventional religion.
(c) Churches.
(d) Popular culture.

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

11. What is the second of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?
(a) God in the negative, through what he is not.
(b) God having attributes that humans do not possess.
(c) God is perfect, people are not.
(d) God seeing all things at all times.

12. Where was Jim Jones from?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Iowa.

13. Eco believes that new "negative theologies" may give insight into what?
(a) Common belief.
(b) Mental illness.
(c) Psychic abilities.
(d) Revolutionary thought.

14. When did Jim Jones die?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1978.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of two categories Eco proposes that thoughts about God fall into in "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion"?

2. Eco creates a language for talking about communication transmission in which there is a source that sends out a signal via a transmitter through what?

3. Eco proposes that tourists at Disney must have a certain passivity and behave as what in order to enjoy themselves?

4. What ideology of progress seeks to improve the world through the use of science and technology?

5. When was Jim Jones born?

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