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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eco suggests that the multinational system is very stable and that the only danger to it is a situation of what?
(a) Economic hardship.
(b) Enraged citizens.
(c) Mass terrorism.
(d) Natural disaster.

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

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

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

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

6. What is the sixth type of Middle Ages presented by Eco in order to approach the subject in a disciplined way?
(a) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(b) The Middle Ages of national identities.
(c) The Middle Ages as a barbaric age.
(d) The Middle Ages of so-called Tradition.

7. Eco asserts that because of the multinational arrangement, there is no head of a particular government or country that can be toppled in order to change what?
(a) The family unit.
(b) The status quo.
(c) The arts world.
(d) The military.

8. 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) Interpreted.
(b) Promoted.
(c) Conveyed.
(d) Expressed.

9. What is the third 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 barbaric age.
(c) The Middle Ages of philological reconstruction.
(d) The Middle Ages of Romanticism.

10. What is the eighth 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 philological reconstruction.
(c) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.
(d) The Middle Ages as the site of an ironical revisitation.

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

12. What is a museum of memories referred to in German?
(a) Flugzeug.
(b) Flughafen.
(c) Wiedersehen.
(d) Wunderkammern.

13. In "The Sacred is Not Just a Fashion" Eco again returns to the metaphor of Superman to what?
(a) America.
(b) A train.
(c) A dog.
(d) A car.

14. Eco asserts that America has its own "Fortresses of Solitude" and it is the realm in which what is found?
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Hermits.
(c) Hyper reality.
(d) Black holes.

15. When was Che Guevara born?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication?

2. What does Eco assert is the natural and final extension of photorealism?

3. Where was Jim Jones from?

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

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

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