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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 The Consolation of Philosophy explain?
(a) How to distinguish God's way of knowing from Man's.
(b) How to live in a world without God.
(c) How to reinvent yourself as a religious person.
(d) How to see God's will in events.

2. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?
(a) Truth.
(b) Power.
(c) Himself.
(d) Religion.

3. What does Boorstin say T.S. Eliot believed poetry was about?
(a) The fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
(b) The evolution of society.
(c) The poet's self-fulfillment.
(d) The extinction of the poetic self.

4. For what does Boorstin say skyscrapers were first used?
(a) Industry.
(b) Defense.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Commerce.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?

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

3. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

4. What was the Romans' principal building material in Boorstin's opinion?

5. What was depicted in the first images?

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