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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 was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?
(a) It was in prose.
(b) It was in dactylic hexameter.
(c) It was about the ancient past.
(d) It described the origins of the world.

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

3. Who was Boethius?
(a) A philosopher of Rome.
(b) A Syrian poet.
(c) A Gothic architect.
(d) A counselor to King Theodoric.

4. Of what does Stonehenge consist?
(a) An elongated cross.
(b) Numerous figures carved in chalk on hillsides.
(c) Two circles of stones.
(d) A stone temple and courtyard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?

2. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?

3. How long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?

4. What is a dithyramb?

5. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?

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