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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. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because they are mystified by the power to create.
(b) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.
(c) Because artists are so often unruly.
(d) Because they live forever in their work.

2. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?
(a) A prolonged odyssey.
(b) 24 books of narrative about war.
(c) 31 poetic narratives.
(d) 100 novellas.

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

4. Of what does Stonehenge consist?
(a) Two circles of stones.
(b) Numerous figures carved in chalk on hillsides.
(c) An elongated cross.
(d) A stone temple and courtyard.

5. What does Boorstin say was combined in the skyscraper?
(a) Past and future.
(b) Form and function.
(c) Man and machine.
(d) Water and stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Faust a metaphor according to Boorstin?

2. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?

3. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?

4. Where was the skyscraper born?

5. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?

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