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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. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?
(a) The division of a canvas into allegorical and realist halves.
(b) Decorative cherubs.
(c) Mimetic realism.
(d) The view out of a window.

2. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(b) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(c) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(d) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.

3. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(a) Competitors.
(b) Collaborators.
(c) Enemies.
(d) Teacher and student.

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

5. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Dadaism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Out of what did Milton create poetry in Boorstin's account?

2. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?

3. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?

4. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?

5. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?

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