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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 did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?
(a) Glorify Greece.
(b) Explore the territories around Greece.
(c) Provide a foundation for mathematical logic.
(d) Define Greek metaphysics.

2. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?
(a) It was in prose.
(b) It was about the ancient past.
(c) It described the origins of the world.
(d) It was in dactylic hexameter.

3. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?
(a) That a thing has not happened until it has been described.
(b) That written accounts are only valuable in settling disputes between people.
(c) That writing is a weak man's refuge from the tyranny of events.
(d) That writing is just the poor afterimage of a lived reality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Advances in what field made it possible for calligraphy to be an art in Chinese culture according to Boorstin?

2. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?

3. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?

4. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?

5. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?

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