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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Boorstin say Monet's achievement was made?
(a) In the elusive moment.
(b) In the relationship between audience and nature.
(c) In the eternal moment of art.
(d) In the relationship between the artist and history.

2. Of what is the Florence Foundling Hospital the first according to Boorstin?
(a) Gothic buildings.
(b) Classical buildings.
(c) Romantic buildings.
(d) Renaissance buildings.

3. How does Boorstin say Proust created life?
(a) In time.
(b) In space.
(c) In ritual.
(d) In action.

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

5. When did Goethe finish Faust?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1848.

6. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?
(a) That life is short and craft is hard to learn.
(b) That a liar is the most honest of men.
(c) That the lives of the common people are themselves art.
(d) That history is made on the backs of common men.

7. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?
(a) A new form of Christian allegory.
(b) Human figures who transcended religion.
(c) Individuality in visual arts.
(d) A personal vision of Christian archetypes.

8. When did Bruneleschi make the Foundling Hospital in Florence?
(a) 1424.
(b) 1386.
(c) 1538.
(d) 1682.

9. For what does Boorstin say skyscrapers were first used?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Industry.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Defense.

10. In what way is Moby Dick NOT a novel according to Boorstin?
(a) It lacks metaphor and allegory.
(b) It lacks antagonism and heroism.
(c) It lacks characterization and plot.
(d) It lacks historical attributes.

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

12. How does Boorstin characterize Of Education?
(a) A manifesto of humanism.
(b) A morality tale about experience and wisdom.
(c) A satire on learning.
(d) A farce about religious education.

13. What does Boorstin say Eliot tried to express in "The Waste Land"?
(a) Incoherence.
(b) Compensation.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Sadness.

14. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?
(a) 1607.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1580.
(d) 1825.

15. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?
(a) 17.
(b) 39.
(c) 51.
(d) 108.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?

2. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?

3. How does Boorstin characterize "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

4. How did Benjamin Franklin innovate in the autobiographical form?

5. How did Dostoevsky view Western science according to Boorstin?

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