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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11, Sections 57-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) The Old Testament.
(b) Sacrifices.
(c) A covenant.
(d) The fates.

2. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?
(a) English history.
(b) The New World.
(c) Future technologies.
(d) The English people.

3. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?
(a) The ideals of the philosophers.
(b) The harmony of the spheres.
(c) The symmetries in nature.
(d) The human body.

4. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?
(a) Dadaism.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Realism.

5. Where does Goethe say the shadows are deepest in the epigraph to Part 10?
(a) Where music is most organized.
(b) Where there is the least hope.
(c) Where the light is brightest.
(d) Where the genius sleeps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?

2. Where does Boorstin say Monet's achievement was made?

3. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

4. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?

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

(see the answer key)

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