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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8, Sections 41-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are hieroglyphs?
(a) A pictorial language.
(b) No one knows.
(c) Symbols of a dead language.
(d) An early alphabet.

2. What metaphor does Boorstin say permeates Christian literature?
(a) Pilgrimage.
(b) Transformation.
(c) Death.
(d) Conversion.

3. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Nomos.
(b) Techne.
(c) Logos.
(d) Pneuma.

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

5. What does Boorstin say Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?
(a) Stained glass windows.
(b) Flying buttresses.
(c) Linear perspective.
(d) Gothic cathedrals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else did Thespis invent?

2. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?

3. What is a dithyramb?

4. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?

5. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

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