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

2. In Boorstin's account, Michelangelo changed man from an imitation of nature to what?
(a) The measure of nature.
(b) A perfection of nature.
(c) A recreation of nature.
(d) An example for nature.

3. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?
(a) The nature of divinity.
(b) The future.
(c) Time as cyclical.
(d) Heaven.

4. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.
(b) Exceed his model.
(c) Capture his model.
(d) Perfect his model.

5. What does Boorstin say the Renaissance offered to Shakespeare?
(a) A community of spectators.
(b) New problems in human experience.
(c) New technology to react against and to use in his plays.
(d) Historically new material for his plays.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?

4. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?

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

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