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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. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?
(a) 500 A.D.
(b) 10,000 B.C.
(c) 5,000 B.C.
(d) 2,000 B.C.

2. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has progressed through the ages.
(b) How mankind has invented itself.
(c) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(d) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.

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

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

5. When did men begin to make images of themselves?
(a) Mesolithic period.
(b) Upper Paleolithic period.
(c) Early Paleolithic period.
(d) Middle Paleolithic period.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Eliot tried to express in "The Waste Land"?

2. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?

3. When did opera develop in Europe?

4. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?

5. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?

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