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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. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?
(a) It became monstrous.
(b) It became more natural.
(c) It became more formal.
(d) It became more ideal.

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

3. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?
(a) Half his biology, half his spirit.
(b) Half himself, half his spouse.
(c) Half his history, half his opportunity.
(d) Half himself, half his expression.

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

5. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) He went blind.
(b) He lost his children.
(c) He lost his wife.
(d) He nearly died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are hieroglyphs?

2. What was depicted in the first images?

3. What does Boorstin say man is finally learning to celebrate in Book 3?

4. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?

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

(see the answer key)

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