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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11, Sections 57-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?
(a) Political intrigue.
(b) An imaginary conspiracy.
(c) Inherited accusations.
(d) His own human nature.

2. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?
(a) It was combined fiction and non-fiction.
(b) It celebrated the self.
(c) It allowed for new definitions of community.
(d) It preserved traditional confessional literary traditions in a new form.

3. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) St. John of Damascus.
(d) Plotinus.

4. How did Benjamin Franklin innovate in the autobiographical form?
(a) His Autobiography introduced the success narrative.
(b) His Autobiography gave an account of his soul and sins, in addition to his relationship with God.
(c) His Autobiography described his most intimate thoughts and actions.
(d) His Autobiography was focused solely on himself and his family.

5. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) The beginning of language.
(c) The beginning of religion.
(d) Self-discovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say was Milton's contribution to poetry?

2. What was depicted in the first images?

3. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?

4. What is the relationship between teacher and learner according to the Koestler quote in the epigraph to Book 3?

5. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?

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