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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Sections 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?
(a) Because they cannot trust the sanctity of any texts.
(b) Because they don't know how to serve each other.
(c) Because the spirits do not exist.
(d) Because the ways of serving the spirits have all been forgotten.

2. Who are the devas?
(a) Syrian warriors.
(b) Hindu gods.
(c) Buddhist monks.
(d) Mesopotamian scribes.

3. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?
(a) Man's ability to enclose a sacred precinct.
(b) Man's ability to defy gravity in building.
(c) Man's ability to provide houses for his gods.
(d) Man's ability to fill a void with his own creation.

4. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?
(a) An explanation of where evil came from.
(b) A direction toward God.
(c) Cycles to develop through.
(d) An end to their sufferings.

5. What was the Romans' principal building material in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Stone.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Marble.
(d) Wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?

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

3. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?

4. How does Boorstin characterize Philo of Alexandria's view of philosophy?

5. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

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