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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Sections 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the devas?
(a) Mesopotamian scribes.
(b) Hindu gods.
(c) Buddhist monks.
(d) Syrian warriors.

2. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?
(a) Transformation.
(b) Sight.
(c) Reincarnation.
(d) Strife.

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

4. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?
(a) That it cannot be defined.
(b) That it cannot be recalled.
(c) That it cannot be offered in prayer.
(d) That it cannot be written.

5. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(b) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.
(c) How mankind has invented itself.
(d) How mankind has progressed through the ages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say man discovered in Section 24: The Birth of the Spectator?

2. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

3. What else did Thespis invent?

4. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

5. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?

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