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

2. What does Boorstin say Giotto di Bondone was the first Western artist to do?
(a) Include text in his paintings.
(b) Bring Christian archetypes to life.
(c) Tell stories in paintings.
(d) Depict the human nude.

3. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?
(a) An understanding of what the consequences will be, for the people who don't want to hear it.
(b) A commitment to make people see it.
(c) One to speak and one to listen.
(d) Eyes to perceive it.

4. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?
(a) As innate to human beings.
(b) As an echo of God's creation.
(c) As dangerous.
(d) As usurping Allah's prerogative.

5. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) Sacrifices.
(b) A covenant.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) The fates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?

2. When did Bruneleschi make the Foundling Hospital in Florence?

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

4. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?

5. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?

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