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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. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1700s.
(b) 1600s.
(c) 1800s.
(d) 1900s.

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

3. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?
(a) The nature of physical matter.
(b) The origins of the universe.
(c) The existence of evil.
(d) Death.

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

5. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?
(a) The future.
(b) Time as cyclical.
(c) The nature of divinity.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?

2. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?

3. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

4. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?

5. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?

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