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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 does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Kathenotheism.
(d) Monotheism.

2. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Transformation.
(c) Sight.
(d) Strife.

3. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.
(b) Because they are mystified by the power to create.
(c) Because artists are so often unruly.
(d) Because they live forever in their work.

4. What does Boorstin say is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?
(a) To meditate but not to settle for any answer.
(b) Not to answer.
(c) To trust whatever the heart says.
(d) To refer all questions to sacred texts.

5. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?
(a) Memorializing the dead.
(b) Teaching anatomy.
(c) Marking territories.
(d) Holding up buildings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?

2. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?

3. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

4. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?

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

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