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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11: Sections 61-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the subject of Monet's art?
(a) Architecture.
(b) His own perceptions.
(c) Human figures.
(d) Nature.

2. For what does Boorstin say skyscrapers were first used?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Industry.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Defense.

3. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?
(a) God.
(b) Genius.
(c) Man.
(d) Aristocrats.

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

5. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?
(a) 24 books of narrative about war.
(b) 100 novellas.
(c) A prolonged odyssey.
(d) 31 poetic narratives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?

2. What does Boorstin say Eliot tried to express in "The Waste Land"?

3. What does Boorstin say man is finally learning to celebrate in Book 3?

4. What does Boorstin say was absent from the Decameron?

5. When did opera develop in Europe?

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