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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7, Sections 31-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are hieroglyphs?
(a) Symbols of a dead language.
(b) No one knows.
(c) A pictorial language.
(d) An early alphabet.

2. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?
(a) Man's ability to provide houses for his gods.
(b) Man's ability to defy gravity in building.
(c) Man's ability to fill a void with his own creation.
(d) Man's ability to enclose a sacred precinct.

3. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?
(a) Gain.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Rebellion against God.
(d) Fame.

4. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?
(a) Ancestors watching over people.
(b) The ability of special men to see beyond physical sight.
(c) Man's self-awareness.
(d) The vision men share with the gods.

5. How does Boorstin characterize the nature of Gothic art?
(a) Obscene.
(b) Terrifying.
(c) Morbid.
(d) Playful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

2. What was the Romans' principal building material in Boorstin's opinion?

3. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

4. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

5. How does Boorstin characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?

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