The Creators Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Related Topics

The Creators Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy The Creators Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?

2. How does Boorstin characterize Wordsworth's best work?

3. What does Boorstin say Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?

4. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?

5. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Milton's contribution to imaginative culture?

2. What was Gibbon's innovation?

3. How did painting begin to reflect the changes that were taking place in literature?

4. Where does Melville's Moby Dick fit in Boorstin's narrative?

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

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

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

8. What innovation does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci made in imaginative art?

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

10. What does Boorstin say is Dostoevsky's contribution to imaginative literature?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assess the proposition that Boorstin's inclusion of non-Western art and culture amounts to tokenism that reflects a Western bias.

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of The Creators--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 607 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy The Creators Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
The Creators from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.