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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 does Boorstin characterize Of Education?
(a) A morality tale about experience and wisdom.
(b) A manifesto of humanism.
(c) A satire on learning.
(d) A farce about religious education.

2. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?
(a) Because of a general proscription of idolatry.
(b) Because creativity is a divine right, not to be usurped.
(c) Because only God can make eternal images.
(d) Because it takes attention away from living figures.

3. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?
(a) An imaginary conspiracy.
(b) His own human nature.
(c) Inherited accusations.
(d) Political intrigue.

4. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) God.
(b) Himself.
(c) His own mortality.
(d) His own immortality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?

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

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