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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

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

3. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?

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

5. How does Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?

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