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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 was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?
(a) It was combined fiction and non-fiction.
(b) It celebrated the self.
(c) It allowed for new definitions of community.
(d) It preserved traditional confessional literary traditions in a new form.

2. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Techne.
(b) Logos.
(c) Nomos.
(d) Pneuma.

3. What did William Henry Fox Talbot discover?
(a) A process for capturing images on glass.
(b) A process for retouching negatives.
(c) A process for capturing sharp contrasts between black and white on photographic film.
(d) A process for using silver nitrate to make copies.

4. How does Boorstin characterize Wordsworth's best work?
(a) Drama.
(b) Epic poetry.
(c) Remembrance.
(d) Prophecy.

5. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?
(a) Drama.
(b) Prose.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

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

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

4. Why couldn't Virginia Woolf settle on one way of looking at herself?

5. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?

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