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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, Sections 27-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Dante described as the founder of modern literature in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Because the Divine Comedy represents a new cosmogony.
(b) Because the Divine Comedy is autobiographical.
(c) Because the Divine Comedy was the first printed book after the Bible.
(d) Because the Divine Comedy externalized a dialogue that would normally have remained internal.

2. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(b) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.
(c) How mankind has invented itself.
(d) How mankind has progressed through the ages.

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 creativity is a divine right, not to be usurped.
(d) Because it takes attention away from living figures.

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

5. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1700s.
(b) 1600s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1800s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?

2. What are hieroglyphs?

3. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?

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

5. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?

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