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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. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To create gods.
(b) To free man from God.
(c) To make something out of nothing.
(d) To do God's will.

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

3. How does Boorstin characterize Philo of Alexandria's view of philosophy?
(a) He sees it as a temptation to evil.
(b) He sees it as the handmaiden of theology.
(c) He sees it as the language of human logic.
(d) He sees it as the true religion.

4. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?
(a) Time as cyclical.
(b) The future.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The nature of divinity.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?

2. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?

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

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

5. Of what does Stonehenge consist?

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