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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. 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.

2. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?
(a) It was in prose.
(b) It was in dactylic hexameter.
(c) It was about the ancient past.
(d) It described the origins of the world.

3. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?
(a) Prajapati.
(b) Afghanistani.
(c) Darsan.
(d) Karma.

4. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Perfect his model.
(b) Exceed his model.
(c) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.
(d) Capture his model.

5. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?
(a) Holding up buildings.
(b) Teaching anatomy.
(c) Memorializing the dead.
(d) Marking territories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?

2. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?

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

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

5. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?

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