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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. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?
(a) An explanation of where evil came from.
(b) A direction toward God.
(c) Cycles to develop through.
(d) An end to their sufferings.

2. How does Boorstin characterize Philo of Alexandria's view of philosophy?
(a) He sees it as the language of human logic.
(b) He sees it as the handmaiden of theology.
(c) He sees it as the true religion.
(d) He sees it as a temptation to evil.

3. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) Plotinus.
(d) St. John of Damascus.

4. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?
(a) Because they cannot trust the sanctity of any texts.
(b) Because the spirits do not exist.
(c) Because the ways of serving the spirits have all been forgotten.
(d) Because they don't know how to serve each other.

5. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Techne.
(b) Logos.
(c) Nomos.
(d) Pneuma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?

2. What else did Thespis invent?

3. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?

4. What was the Romans' principal building material in Boorstin's opinion?

5. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

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