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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 Boorstin see in men making images of men?
(a) The beginning of language.
(b) Self-discovery.
(c) The beginning of religion.
(d) Consciousness.

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

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

4. What was depicted in the first images?
(a) Men.
(b) The landscape.
(c) Abstract symbols.
(d) Animals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?

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

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

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

5. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

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