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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?
(a) That most deserve to be forgotten.
(b) That none are undeservedly remembered.
(c) That undeserving books are often remembered.
(d) That the future is full of meaningless books.

2. What fear did St. Ambrose's creation allay?
(a) Of unseemly literature entering the church canon.
(b) Of unsuitable music entering the church.
(c) Of drabness in church literature.
(d) Of buildings that rendered prayer impossible.

3. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?
(a) That it cannot be offered in prayer.
(b) That it cannot be defined.
(c) That it cannot be recalled.
(d) That it cannot be written.

4. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1800s.
(b) 1600s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1700s.

5. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?
(a) Drama, dance and music.
(b) Craft and technology.
(c) Hunting and weaponry.
(d) Warfare and strife.

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

7. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?
(a) The beginning of language.
(b) Self-discovery.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) The beginning of religion.

8. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To make something out of nothing.
(b) To do God's will.
(c) To free man from God.
(d) To create gods.

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

10. How long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?
(a) A thousand years.
(b) Two thousand years.
(c) Five hundred years.
(d) A hundred years.

11. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?
(a) The discovery of the New World.
(b) The plague.
(c) Developments in the medieval church.
(d) The Wars of the Roses.

12. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?
(a) Proclaiming the Egyptians' power as a people.
(b) Challenging the gods.
(c) Measuring the progress of the heavens.
(d) Housing the dead pharaohs.

13. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?
(a) The laws of the state.
(b) Themselves.
(c) The laws of fate.
(d) Heroes of myth.

14. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?
(a) Visual arts.
(b) Technology.
(c) Music.
(d) Literature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?

2. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?

3. What does Boorstin say is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?

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

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

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