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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. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.
(b) Capture his model.
(c) Exceed his model.
(d) Perfect his model.

2. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?
(a) Gain.
(b) Fame.
(c) Rebellion against God.
(d) Immortality.

3. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?
(a) Because the ways of serving the spirits have all been forgotten.
(b) Because the spirits do not exist.
(c) Because they cannot trust the sanctity of any texts.
(d) Because they don't know how to serve each other.

4. What experience does Boorstin say Dante described in the Divine Comedy?
(a) Birth into religion.
(b) Doubt and rediscovery of faith.
(c) The rites of passage.
(d) Exile from life to death.

5. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?
(a) An end to their sufferings.
(b) An explanation of where evil came from.
(c) Cycles to develop through.
(d) A direction toward God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?

2. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

3. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

4. What else did Thespis invent?

5. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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