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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 becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?
(a) The origins of the universe.
(b) The existence of evil.
(c) Death.
(d) The nature of physical matter.

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

3. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?
(a) That undeserving books are often remembered.
(b) That the future is full of meaningless books.
(c) That most deserve to be forgotten.
(d) That none are undeservedly remembered.

4. 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 it takes attention away from living figures.
(d) Because only God can make eternal images.

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

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

3. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?

4. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?

5. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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