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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 does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To create gods.
(b) To free man from God.
(c) To do God's will.
(d) To make something out of nothing.

2. 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.

3. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) A covenant.
(b) The fates.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) Sacrifices.

4. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) To use for writing.
(b) People who don't inquire into the world.
(c) People who ask too many questions.
(d) Wicked people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Stonehenge consist?

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

3. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?

4. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

5. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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