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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 did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?
(a) Drama.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Tragedy.

2. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?
(a) The discovery of the New World.
(b) The Wars of the Roses.
(c) Developments in the medieval church.
(d) The plague.

3. What was the purpose of Don Quixote in Boorstin's account?
(a) To define the character of the Spanish people.
(b) To return chivalric romances to their roots.
(c) To kill off chivalric romances.
(d) To perfect the genre of chivalric romance.

4. What does Boorstin say the Renaissance offered to Shakespeare?
(a) New technology to react against and to use in his plays.
(b) Historically new material for his plays.
(c) A community of spectators.
(d) New problems in human experience.

5. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?
(a) Man's power to control nature.
(b) Democracy.
(c) The New World.
(d) Man's power to create.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?

2. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?

3. What does each Tale in the Canterbury Tales have according to Boorstin?

4. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?

5. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?

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