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

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

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

4. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?
(a) As the center of the economy.
(b) As houses for the soul.
(c) As temples for the gods.
(d) As the heart of the people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

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

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

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

5. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?

(see the answer key)

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