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

2. Where does Goethe say the shadows are deepest in the epigraph to Part 10?
(a) Where the genius sleeps.
(b) Where there is the least hope.
(c) Where music is most organized.
(d) Where the light is brightest.

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

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

5. Where did Dostoevsky gain the experience from which he wrote Crime and Punishment?
(a) Working in a factory.
(b) His parents' farm.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?

2. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?

3. In what tradition was Cristabel written according to Boorstin?

4. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?

5. What does Boorstin say T.S. Eliot believed poetry was about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Coleridge's importance in imaginative literature according to Boorstin?

2. How does Proust change the way we understand imagination in modern times?

3. How did photography change the nature of art and representation in Boorstin's account?

4. In what way did T. S. Eliot change the course of literature's evolution?

5. When does Boorstin say authors became the subject of their own writing?

6. What does Boorstin say is Ben Franklin's contribution to the art of imaginative life?

7. What is the skyscraper's role in the development of the human imagination?

8. How does Boorstin characterize Dickens' contribution to imaginative culture?

9. How does Boorstin describe the evolution of the orchestra over time?

10. Where does Boorstin put Kafka in his portrait of imaginative thinkers?

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