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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Sections 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?
(a) As houses for the soul.
(b) As the center of the economy.
(c) As temples for the gods.
(d) As the heart of the people.

2. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?
(a) 10,000 B.C.
(b) 2,000 B.C.
(c) 5,000 B.C.
(d) 500 A.D.

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

4. Of what does Stonehenge consist?
(a) A stone temple and courtyard.
(b) Two circles of stones.
(c) Numerous figures carved in chalk on hillsides.
(d) An elongated cross.

5. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) People who ask too many questions.
(b) Wicked people.
(c) People who don't inquire into the world.
(d) To use for writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?

2. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?

3. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?

4. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?

5. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

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