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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 Christianity helped man discover?
(a) Democracy.
(b) The New World.
(c) Man's power to control nature.
(d) Man's power to create.

2. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?
(a) The awe of Hebraic religion.
(b) Greek grammar.
(c) The logic of Greek mathematicians.
(d) The charm of Greek philosophy.

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

4. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?
(a) Provide a foundation for mathematical logic.
(b) Glorify Greece.
(c) Define Greek metaphysics.
(d) Explore the territories around Greece.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?

3. How does Boorstin characterize Philo of Alexandria's view of philosophy?

4. Advances in what field made it possible for calligraphy to be an art in Chinese culture according to Boorstin?

5. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?

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