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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11, Sections 57-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?
(a) 39.
(b) 108.
(c) 17.
(d) 51.

2. 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.

3. What metaphor does Boorstin say permeates Christian literature?
(a) Death.
(b) Conversion.
(c) Transformation.
(d) Pilgrimage.

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

5. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?
(a) Warfare and strife.
(b) Craft and technology.
(c) Hunting and weaponry.
(d) Drama, dance and music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did modern dance claim to be according to Boorstin?

2. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?

3. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?

4. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?

5. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?

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