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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 dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.
(b) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.
(c) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.
(d) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.

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

3. How did the orchestra change in the fifteenth century according to Boorstin?
(a) They swelled to unprecedented size.
(b) Composers began to employ new forms of harmony and dissonance.
(c) Instruments were grouped into families.
(d) Conductors were introduced to coordinate parts.

4. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?
(a) Proclaiming the Egyptians' power as a people.
(b) Measuring the progress of the heavens.
(c) Housing the dead pharaohs.
(d) Challenging the gods.

5. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?
(a) It was combined fiction and non-fiction.
(b) It preserved traditional confessional literary traditions in a new form.
(c) It allowed for new definitions of community.
(d) It celebrated the self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?

2. What did Saint Ambrose invent?

3. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?

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

5. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?

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