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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 was the second step in the use of skyscrapers?
(a) Industry.
(b) National pride.
(c) Architectural form.
(d) Surveillance.

2. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?
(a) Man's self-awareness.
(b) Ancestors watching over people.
(c) The vision men share with the gods.
(d) The ability of special men to see beyond physical sight.

3. How does Boorstin characterize the nature of Gothic art?
(a) Terrifying.
(b) Obscene.
(c) Morbid.
(d) Playful.

4. What was the purpose of Don Quixote in Boorstin's account?
(a) To define the character of the Spanish people.
(b) To return chivalric romances to their roots.
(c) To perfect the genre of chivalric romance.
(d) To kill off chivalric romances.

5. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?
(a) His doctor warned him against public readings.
(b) He went bankrupt.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He was censored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dithyramb?

2. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?

3. What did William Henry Fox Talbot discover?

4. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?

5. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?

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