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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Sections 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Philo of Alexandria's view of philosophy?
(a) He sees it as a temptation to evil.
(b) He sees it as the true religion.
(c) He sees it as the language of human logic.
(d) He sees it as the handmaiden of theology.

2. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?
(a) Man's determination to find food sources.
(b) Man's determination to find origins.
(c) Man's attempt to measure and regulate his environment.
(d) Man's desire to live forever.

3. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has progressed through the ages.
(b) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(c) How mankind has invented itself.
(d) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.

4. What does Boorstin say is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?
(a) To refer all questions to sacred texts.
(b) To meditate but not to settle for any answer.
(c) To trust whatever the heart says.
(d) Not to answer.

5. What was the Romans' principal building material in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Stone.
(c) Wood.
(d) Marble.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?

3. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?

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

5. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?

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