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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Sections 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?
(a) Memorializing the dead.
(b) Holding up buildings.
(c) Teaching anatomy.
(d) Marking territories.

2. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because artists are so often unruly.
(b) Because they live forever in their work.
(c) Because they are mystified by the power to create.
(d) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.

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

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

5. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?
(a) Strife.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Transformation.
(d) Sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?

2. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?

3. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?

4. What is a dithyramb?

5. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

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