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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. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?
(a) It became more natural.
(b) It became more ideal.
(c) It became monstrous.
(d) It became more formal.

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

3. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?
(a) Man's determination to find food sources.
(b) Man's desire to live forever.
(c) Man's determination to find origins.
(d) Man's attempt to measure and regulate his environment.

4. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?
(a) The harmony of the spheres.
(b) The symmetries in nature.
(c) The ideals of the philosophers.
(d) The human body.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?

3. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

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

5. What else did Thespis invent?

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