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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. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?
(a) His doctor warned him against public readings.
(b) He went bankrupt.
(c) He was censored.
(d) He was arrested.

2. Where was the skyscraper born?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

3. What does Boorstin say was the second step in the use of skyscrapers?
(a) National pride.
(b) Architectural form.
(c) Industry.
(d) Surveillance.

4. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(b) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(c) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(d) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say man discovered in Section 24: The Birth of the Spectator?

2. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?

3. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

4. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?

5. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

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