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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 is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(b) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(c) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.
(d) He speaks in texts but means all things.

2. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) A covenant.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) Sacrifices.
(d) The fates.

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

4. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?
(a) Sacred.
(b) Panoramic.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Autobiographical.

5. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) To use for writing.
(b) Wicked people.
(c) People who ask too many questions.
(d) People who don't inquire into the world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When were the cave drawings discovered?

3. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?

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

5. In Boorstin's account, Michelangelo changed man from an imitation of nature to what?

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