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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 Boorstin say man is finally learning to celebrate in Book 3?
(a) The Other.
(b) Industry.
(c) Each individual.
(d) The human masses.
2. In Boorstin's account, Michelangelo changed man from an imitation of nature to what?
(a) An example for nature.
(b) A perfection of nature.
(c) The measure of nature.
(d) A recreation of nature.
3. When did men begin to make images of themselves?
(a) Mesolithic period.
(b) Middle Paleolithic period.
(c) Upper Paleolithic period.
(d) Early Paleolithic period.
4. What made Lyrical Ballads revolutionary according to Boorstin?
(a) It refined poetic forms in their most perfect crystallization.
(b) It made poetry closer to lived experience.
(c) It attributed unheard-of political agency to each individual.
(d) It turned each individual into a microcosm of the universe.
5. When did opera develop in Europe?
(a) Around 1550 in France.
(b) Around 1600 in Italy.
(c) Around 1800 in Germany.
(d) Around 1500 in England.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Benjamin Franklin innovate in the autobiographical form?
2. How does Boorstin characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?
3. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?
4. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?
5. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?
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