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

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

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

4. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?
(a) Man's power to control nature.
(b) The New World.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Man's power to create.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?

4. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

5. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?

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