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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9, Sections 47-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Advances in what field made it possible for calligraphy to be an art in Chinese culture according to Boorstin?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Paper making.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Trade.

2. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?
(a) That it requires renunciation of the world.
(b) That it requires symbolic death, again and again.
(c) That it requires symbols of beauty.
(d) That it happens on its own.

3. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?
(a) Challenging the gods.
(b) Proclaiming the Egyptians' power as a people.
(c) Housing the dead pharaohs.
(d) Measuring the progress of the heavens.

4. How does Boorstin characterize Of Education?
(a) A satire on learning.
(b) A manifesto of humanism.
(c) A morality tale about experience and wisdom.
(d) A farce about religious education.

5. What did Saint Ambrose invent?
(a) Stained glass windows.
(b) Colored printing.
(c) Christian architecture.
(d) Christian hymns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

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

3. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?

4. Mozart composed eight symphonies, four divertimentos and some sacred works in a few months at what age?

5. When did opera develop in Europe?

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