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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 was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?
(a) The plague.
(b) The Wars of the Roses.
(c) Developments in the medieval church.
(d) The discovery of the New World.

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

3. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?
(a) Drama, dance and music.
(b) Craft and technology.
(c) Hunting and weaponry.
(d) Warfare and strife.

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

5. What does Boorstin say was absent from the Decameron?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Morals.
(c) Religion.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

2. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?

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

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

5. What is a dithyramb?

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