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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 farce about religious education.
(b) A satire on learning.
(c) A manifesto of humanism.
(d) A morality tale about experience and wisdom.

2. When did men begin to make images of themselves?
(a) Early Paleolithic period.
(b) Middle Paleolithic period.
(c) Mesolithic period.
(d) Upper Paleolithic period.

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

4. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?
(a) It became monstrous.
(b) It became more formal.
(c) It became more natural.
(d) It became more ideal.

5. How does Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?
(a) A shifting subject viewed from a shifting perspective.
(b) A scientific glimpse into the workings of the self.
(c) A rebellion against the act of being misread.
(d) An objective account of a person's feelings and language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?

2. What are hieroglyphs?

3. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?

4. What is the relationship between teacher and learner according to the Koestler quote in the epigraph to Book 3?

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

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