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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 more ideal.
(b) It became more natural.
(c) It became monstrous.
(d) It became more formal.

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

3. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?
(a) The fairy tale of history.
(b) The biography of kings.
(c) The saga of empire.
(d) The historical novel.

4. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?
(a) Religion.
(b) Power.
(c) Truth.
(d) Himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Koestler characterize creativity in the epigraph to Book 3?

2. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?

3. What are hieroglyphs?

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

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

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