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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 does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) God.
(b) Himself.
(c) His own mortality.
(d) His own immortality.

2. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Capture his model.
(b) Perfect his model.
(c) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.
(d) Exceed his model.

3. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) The future.
(b) Immortality.
(c) God.
(d) Nature.

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

5. What was depicted in the first images?
(a) The landscape.
(b) Animals.
(c) Abstract symbols.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?

2. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?

3. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

4. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?

5. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?

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