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The Creators Test | Final Test - Medium

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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. How does Boorstin characterize "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
(a) The first confessional poem.
(b) The first post-modern poem.
(c) The first modernist poem.
(d) The last Medieval chanson.

2. 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 historical attributes.
(d) It lacks characterization and plot.

3. What was the subject of Monet's art?
(a) Nature.
(b) Architecture.
(c) His own perceptions.
(d) Human figures.

4. What does Alphonse Daudet claim music is in his epigraph to Part 9?
(a) The essence of language.
(b) Another planet.
(c) A religion.
(d) The perfection of human emotion.

5. What is the relationship between teacher and learner according to the Koestler quote in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) They are the same person.
(b) The learner has more anxiety than ever.
(c) The teacher has less authority than earlier.
(d) The learner has more opportunity than ever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?

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

3. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?

4. What did William Henry Fox Talbot discover?

5. Where does Goethe say the shadows are deepest in the epigraph to Part 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did dance change during the transition into modernity?

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

3. What does Boorstin say Pickering and Prescott have in common, and what is their role in the development of the Western imaginative consciousness?

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

5. How does Boorstin characterize Monet's accomplishment?

6. How did Beethoven change the nature of music according to Boorstin?

7. Why does Boorstin say Goethe's Faust is an important work?

8. How does Boorstin characterize Michelangelo's contribution to human culture?

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

10. What is the place of the essay in the history Boorstin is describing?

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