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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 Paleolithic man discovered in making images?
(a) Power.
(b) Religion.
(c) Truth.
(d) Himself.

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

3. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1700s.
(b) 1900s.
(c) 1600s.
(d) 1800s.

4. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?
(a) The Wars of the Roses.
(b) The discovery of the New World.
(c) Developments in the medieval church.
(d) The plague.

5. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?
(a) Aristocrats.
(b) Man.
(c) God.
(d) Genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

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

3. What does Boorstin say the Renaissance offered to Shakespeare?

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

5. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?

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