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

2. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) James Boswell.
(c) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

3. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?
(a) Drama.
(b) Prose.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Criticism.

4. What is the relationship between teacher and learner according to the Koestler quote in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) They are the same person.
(b) The teacher has less authority than earlier.
(c) The learner has more opportunity than ever.
(d) The learner has more anxiety than ever.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Out of what did Milton create poetry in Boorstin's account?

4. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?

5. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?

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