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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 12, Sections 68-70 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Exceed his model.
(b) Perfect his model.
(c) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.
(d) Capture his model.

2. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?
(a) As the ultimate humanist historian.
(b) As a leading adventure novelist.
(c) As a prophet of communism.
(d) As a pornographic philosopher.

3. What was the special element of Gothic architecture in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Symmetry.
(b) Irregularity.
(c) Color.
(d) Light.

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

5. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?
(a) That a thing has not happened until it has been described.
(b) That writing is just the poor afterimage of a lived reality.
(c) That writing is a weak man's refuge from the tyranny of events.
(d) That written accounts are only valuable in settling disputes between people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?

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

3. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

4. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?

5. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?

(see the answer key)

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