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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7, Sections 31-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say man discovered in Section 24: The Birth of the Spectator?
(a) That crowds have personalities of their own.
(b) That the universe does not have anything to do with him.
(c) That he need not be a participant all the time.
(d) That there is safety in crowds.

2. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?
(a) The ideals of the philosophers.
(b) The symmetries in nature.
(c) The human body.
(d) The harmony of the spheres.

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

4. What does Boorstin say the Renaissance offered to Shakespeare?
(a) New problems in human experience.
(b) Historically new material for his plays.
(c) A community of spectators.
(d) New technology to react against and to use in his plays.

5. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?
(a) One to speak and one to listen.
(b) An understanding of what the consequences will be, for the people who don't want to hear it.
(c) A commitment to make people see it.
(d) Eyes to perceive it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?

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

3. What are hieroglyphs?

4. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?

5. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

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