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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 long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?
(a) Five hundred years.
(b) Two thousand years.
(c) A thousand years.
(d) A hundred years.

2. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?
(a) Knowing how to expand your power.
(b) Knowing how to confront difficult questions without flinching.
(c) Knowing how to survive.
(d) Knowing what you do not know.

3. Where does Boorstin say Monet's achievement was made?
(a) In the relationship between the artist and history.
(b) In the eternal moment of art.
(c) In the relationship between audience and nature.
(d) In the elusive moment.

4. 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 free man from God.
(c) To do God's will.
(d) To create gods.

5. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?
(a) Teaching anatomy.
(b) Holding up buildings.
(c) Marking territories.
(d) Memorializing the dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say does the artist's job in photography?

2. In what does Boorstin say Rabelais' book was an act of faith?

3. What does Boorstin say was Milton's contribution to poetry?

4. What was depicted in the first images?

5. Of what is the Florence Foundling Hospital the first according to Boorstin?

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