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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. How does Boorstin characterize Wordsworth's best work?
(a) Remembrance.
(b) Prophecy.
(c) Epic poetry.
(d) Drama.

2. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?
(a) The New World.
(b) English history.
(c) Future technologies.
(d) The English people.

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

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

5. What does Boorstin say does the artist's job in photography?
(a) The machine.
(b) The image itself.
(c) Light.
(d) The developer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

2. With what does Boorstin say Alfred Stieglitz experimented?

3. What does Boorstin say Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?

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

5. In what tradition was Cristabel written according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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