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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, Sections 27-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?
(a) The New World.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Man's power to control nature.
(d) Man's power to create.

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

3. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?
(a) Roman temples.
(b) Northern forests.
(c) Greek temples.
(d) Jewish synagogues.

4. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?
(a) That it requires symbols of beauty.
(b) That it requires renunciation of the world.
(c) That it happens on its own.
(d) That it requires symbolic death, again and again.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?

3. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

4. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?

5. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?

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