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

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

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

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

5. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?
(a) Self-discovery.
(b) The beginning of religion.
(c) The beginning of language.
(d) Consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?

2. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?

3. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?

4. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

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

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