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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. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?
(a) Northern forests.
(b) Roman temples.
(c) Jewish synagogues.
(d) Greek temples.

2. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?
(a) The origins of the universe.
(b) Death.
(c) The nature of physical matter.
(d) The existence of evil.

3. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?
(a) Karma.
(b) Afghanistani.
(c) Darsan.
(d) Prajapati.

4. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.
(b) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(c) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(d) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.

5. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?
(a) The idea of a single omnipotent creator.
(b) The idea of original sin.
(c) The notion of eternal reoccurrence.
(d) The idea of human sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what does Stonehenge consist?

3. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?

4. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?

5. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

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