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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 Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?
(a) Drama.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Tragedy.

2. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?
(a) That life is short and craft is hard to learn.
(b) That the lives of the common people are themselves art.
(c) That a liar is the most honest of men.
(d) That history is made on the backs of common men.

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

4. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?
(a) The idea of a single omnipotent creator.
(b) The idea of original sin.
(c) The notion of eternal reoccurrence.
(d) The idea of human sacrifice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

2. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

3. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?

4. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?

5. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?

(see the answer key)

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