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

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

3. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because they live forever in their work.
(b) Because they are mystified by the power to create.
(c) Because artists are so often unruly.
(d) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.

4. What is a dithyramb?
(a) A dance done to honor ancestors.
(b) A song sung in honor of the god.
(c) A poem that commemorates a battle.
(d) A monument that commemorates a sacrifice.

5. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?
(a) Thucydides' history.
(b) Herodotus' history.
(c) Petronius' Satyricon.
(d) Thales of Miletus' history.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?

3. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?

4. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

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

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