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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) People who ask too many questions.
(b) Wicked people.
(c) People who don't inquire into the world.
(d) To use for writing.

2. What does each Tale in the Canterbury Tales have according to Boorstin?
(a) A moral.
(b) A pregnant woman.
(c) A villain.
(d) A devil figure.

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

4. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(b) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(c) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(d) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.

5. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Perfect his model.
(b) Exceed his model.
(c) Capture his model.
(d) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?

2. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?

3. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?

4. What was depicted in the first images?

5. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?

Short Essay Questions

1. What contribution does Boorstin say Boethius made to imaginative culture?

2. What does Boorstin say is the importance of megaliths?

3. How does Boorstin characterize Cervantes' contribution to imaginative literature?

4. How does Boorstin describe the birth of hymns?

5. What is a dithyramb and what is its place in imaginative culture?

6. What was Boccaccio's contribution to Western culture?

7. What is the purpose of life in Buddhist teachings?

8. How does Boorstin describe the difference between tragedy and comedy?

9. How does Boorstin say the Japanese differ from Westerners in their architectural approach?

10. What contribution did the Egyptians make to writing and self-expression?

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