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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8, Sections 41-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?
(a) That it cannot be defined.
(b) That it cannot be offered in prayer.
(c) That it cannot be recalled.
(d) That it cannot be written.

2. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?
(a) That writing is just the poor afterimage of a lived reality.
(b) That writing is a weak man's refuge from the tyranny of events.
(c) That a thing has not happened until it has been described.
(d) That written accounts are only valuable in settling disputes between people.

3. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?
(a) That the future is full of meaningless books.
(b) That none are undeservedly remembered.
(c) That most deserve to be forgotten.
(d) That undeserving books are often remembered.

4. What was depicted in the first images?
(a) The landscape.
(b) Abstract symbols.
(c) Animals.
(d) Men.

5. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?
(a) The idea of the future.
(b) Traditional Christian figures.
(c) The value of history.
(d) Artistic independence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?

2. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?

3. What are hieroglyphs?

4. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?

5. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

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