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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 does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?
(a) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.
(b) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.
(c) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.
(d) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.

2. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) God.
(b) Nature.
(c) Immortality.
(d) The future.

3. What does Boorstin say Eliot tried to express in "The Waste Land"?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Incoherence.
(d) Compensation.

4. In what period was the symphony created?
(a) Gothic.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Baroque.

5. What does Boorstin say was absent from the Decameron?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Religion.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Morals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?

2. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?

3. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

4. Advances in what field made it possible for calligraphy to be an art in Chinese culture according to Boorstin?

5. What are hieroglyphs?

(see the answer key)

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