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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. In what way does Boorstin say Milton was a strong individual?
(a) He invented his own mythical characters and religion.
(b) He did not subscribe to conventional religious views.
(c) He never belonged to a sect.
(d) He exiled his children for their unconventional religious views.

2. What are hieroglyphs?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Symbols of a dead language.
(c) A pictorial language.
(d) An early alphabet.

3. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?
(a) Of the future unification of mankind.
(b) Of European conquest of Native Americans.
(c) Of the literary accomplishments Europeans brought to America.
(d) Of the coming technological changes in Western culture.

4. When did men begin to make images of themselves?
(a) Early Paleolithic period.
(b) Mesolithic period.
(c) Middle Paleolithic period.
(d) Upper Paleolithic period.

5. How does Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?
(a) A shifting subject viewed from a shifting perspective.
(b) A rebellion against the act of being misread.
(c) An objective account of a person's feelings and language.
(d) A scientific glimpse into the workings of the self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?

2. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

3. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

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

5. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?

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