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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 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 learner has more anxiety than ever.
(c) The learner has more opportunity than ever.
(d) The teacher has less authority than earlier.

2. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?
(a) Teaching anatomy.
(b) Memorializing the dead.
(c) Holding up buildings.
(d) Marking territories.

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

4. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?
(a) It celebrated the self.
(b) It allowed for new definitions of community.
(c) It was combined fiction and non-fiction.
(d) It preserved traditional confessional literary traditions in a new form.

5. How does Koestler characterize creativity in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) As a new discipline.
(b) As a new language.
(c) As a new form of learning.
(d) As a new form of philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?

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

3. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?

4. How does Boorstin characterize Of Education?

5. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

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