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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11, Sections 57-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?
(a) Of the literary accomplishments Europeans brought to America.
(b) Of European conquest of Native Americans.
(c) Of the future unification of mankind.
(d) Of the coming technological changes in Western culture.

2. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Prose.
(c) Drama.
(d) Criticism.

3. How does Boorstin characterize Of Education?
(a) A farce about religious education.
(b) A morality tale about experience and wisdom.
(c) A satire on learning.
(d) A manifesto of humanism.

4. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?
(a) He was arrested.
(b) He went bankrupt.
(c) He was censored.
(d) His doctor warned him against public readings.

5. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1700s.
(b) 1800s.
(c) 1600s.
(d) 1900s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?

2. What is the relationship between teacher and learner according to the Koestler quote in the epigraph to Book 3?

3. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

4. How does Koestler characterize creativity in the epigraph to Book 3?

5. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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