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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. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?
(a) Because only God can make eternal images.
(b) Because of a general proscription of idolatry.
(c) Because creativity is a divine right, not to be usurped.
(d) Because it takes attention away from living figures.

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

3. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?
(a) Economies.
(b) Wars and elections.
(c) Political movements.
(d) Human habits and utterances.

4. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?
(a) His doctor warned him against public readings.
(b) He was censored.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He went bankrupt.

5. Out of what did Milton create poetry in Boorstin's account?
(a) Man's diabolical nature.
(b) Man's difficulties with right and wrong.
(c) Man's adventures in choice.
(d) Man's struggles with good and evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?

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

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

4. In what way does Boorstin say Milton was a strong individual?

5. How does Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?

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