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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 see in men making images of men?
(a) The beginning of religion.
(b) Self-discovery.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) The beginning of language.

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

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

4. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?
(a) Religion.
(b) Himself.
(c) Power.
(d) Truth.

5. What is a dithyramb?
(a) A dance done to honor ancestors.
(b) A song sung in honor of the god.
(c) A monument that commemorates a sacrifice.
(d) A poem that commemorates a battle.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Bruneleschi make the Foundling Hospital in Florence?

4. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

5. What does Boorstin say Giotto di Bondone was the first Western artist to do?

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