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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. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1607.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1580.

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

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

4. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?
(a) The historical novel.
(b) The saga of empire.
(c) The biography of kings.
(d) The fairy tale of history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?

2. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?

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

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

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

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