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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Sections 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To free man from God.
(b) To create gods.
(c) To do God's will.
(d) To make something out of nothing.

4. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Pneuma.
(b) Logos.
(c) Nomos.
(d) Techne.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?

2. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?

3. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

4. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?

5. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?

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