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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 does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Drama.
(d) Prose.

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

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

4. What does Boorstin say was Milton's contribution to poetry?
(a) He characterized Satan in a way that would endure for centuries.
(b) He invented new poetic forms.
(c) He brought the English language to life.
(d) He refined the language and made it more economical.

5. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?
(a) Perfection of human nature.
(b) Heroic beauty.
(c) Replacement of God.
(d) Emulation of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?

2. What are hieroglyphs?

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

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

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

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