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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11: Sections 61-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Faust a metaphor according to Boorstin?
(a) The dissatisfied modern self.
(b) The questing soul.
(c) The unconscious.
(d) The conscience.

2. How does Boorstin characterize the nature of Gothic art?
(a) Terrifying.
(b) Morbid.
(c) Playful.
(d) Obscene.

3. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?
(a) It allowed for new definitions of community.
(b) It was combined fiction and non-fiction.
(c) It preserved traditional confessional literary traditions in a new form.
(d) It celebrated the self.

4. Who was Boethius?
(a) A counselor to King Theodoric.
(b) A Syrian poet.
(c) A philosopher of Rome.
(d) A Gothic architect.

5. What experience does Boorstin say Dante described in the Divine Comedy?
(a) Doubt and rediscovery of faith.
(b) The rites of passage.
(c) Birth into religion.
(d) Exile from life to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?

2. What does Boorstin say Giotto di Bondone was the first Western artist to do?

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

4. What does Boorstin say man is finally learning to celebrate in Book 3?

5. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

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