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

2. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?
(a) He was arrested.
(b) He was censored.
(c) He went bankrupt.
(d) His doctor warned him against public readings.

3. 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.

4. In what way does Boorstin say Milton was a strong individual?
(a) He never belonged to a sect.
(b) He exiled his children for their unconventional religious views.
(c) He did not subscribe to conventional religious views.
(d) He invented his own mythical characters and religion.

5. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) He lost his wife.
(b) He nearly died.
(c) He went blind.
(d) He lost his children.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

2. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?

3. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?

4. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?

5. What are hieroglyphs?

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