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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. When did Bruneleschi make the Foundling Hospital in Florence?
(a) 1424.
(b) 1386.
(c) 1682.
(d) 1538.

2. 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 of a general proscription of idolatry.
(c) Because only God can make eternal images.
(d) Because it takes attention away from living figures.

3. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?
(a) As dangerous.
(b) As innate to human beings.
(c) As an echo of God's creation.
(d) As usurping Allah's prerogative.

4. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.
(b) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(c) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(d) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.

5. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?
(a) Human figures who transcended religion.
(b) A personal vision of Christian archetypes.
(c) Individuality in visual arts.
(d) A new form of Christian allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?

2. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?

3. What else did Thespis invent?

4. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?

5. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?

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