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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Stravinsky's role in music?
(a) The prophet of harmony.
(b) The philosopher of sound.
(c) The voice of the past.
(d) The apostle of modernism.

2. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) Nature.
(b) The future.
(c) God.
(d) Immortality.

3. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?
(a) That he was the most fortunate man who had ever lived.
(b) That he was dying before he could enjoy his talent.
(c) That he had not yet begun his real work.
(d) That he had done all he meant to do.

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

5. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Competitors.
(c) Teacher and student.
(d) Collaborators.

6. With what does Boorstin say Alfred Stieglitz experimented?
(a) Capturing moving images.
(b) Architectural forms.
(c) Musical forms.
(d) Exposures and negatives.

7. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?
(a) James Boswell.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

8. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?
(a) Wars and elections.
(b) Political movements.
(c) Economies.
(d) Human habits and utterances.

9. In what way does Boorstin say Milton was a strong individual?
(a) He did not subscribe to conventional religious views.
(b) He exiled his children for their unconventional religious views.
(c) He never belonged to a sect.
(d) He invented his own mythical characters and religion.

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

11. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?
(a) The idea of the future.
(b) The value of history.
(c) Artistic independence.
(d) Traditional Christian figures.

12. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?
(a) Half his history, half his opportunity.
(b) Half his biology, half his spirit.
(c) Half himself, half his spouse.
(d) Half himself, half his expression.

13. What does Boorstin say Melville presents in Moby Dick?
(a) The cruel heart of American industry.
(b) The isolation of American individuals.
(c) The stoicism of the American self.
(d) The mystery of the self.

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

15. What does Boorstin say Giotto di Bondone was the first Western artist to do?
(a) Tell stories in paintings.
(b) Depict the human nude.
(c) Include text in his paintings.
(d) Bring Christian archetypes to life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the skyscraper born?

2. In what way is Moby Dick NOT a novel according to Boorstin?

3. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?

4. In Boorstin's account, Michelangelo changed man from an imitation of nature to what?

5. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?

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