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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 did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?
(a) The historical novel.
(b) The saga of empire.
(c) The fairy tale of history.
(d) The biography of kings.

2. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?
(a) Future technologies.
(b) English history.
(c) The New World.
(d) The English people.

3. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?
(a) Because only God can make eternal images.
(b) Because it takes attention away from living figures.
(c) Because creativity is a divine right, not to be usurped.
(d) Because of a general proscription of idolatry.

4. Out of what did Milton create poetry in Boorstin's account?
(a) Man's adventures in choice.
(b) Man's difficulties with right and wrong.
(c) Man's diabolical nature.
(d) Man's struggles with good and evil.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin say was Milton's contribution to poetry?

3. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?

4. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?

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

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