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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 should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?
(a) Perfection of human nature.
(b) Replacement of God.
(c) Heroic beauty.
(d) Emulation of God.

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

3. What was the purpose of Don Quixote in Boorstin's account?
(a) To kill off chivalric romances.
(b) To perfect the genre of chivalric romance.
(c) To return chivalric romances to their roots.
(d) To define the character of the Spanish people.

4. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?
(a) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.
(b) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.
(c) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.
(d) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.

5. In what does Boorstin say Rabelais' book was an act of faith?
(a) Literary history.
(b) Language.
(c) God.
(d) Culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?

2. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?

3. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?

4. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?

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

(see the answer key)

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