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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. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?
(a) Man's determination to find origins.
(b) Man's desire to live forever.
(c) Man's attempt to measure and regulate his environment.
(d) Man's determination to find food sources.

2. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1600s.
(b) 1700s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1800s.

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

4. What are hieroglyphs?
(a) Symbols of a dead language.
(b) A pictorial language.
(c) An early alphabet.
(d) No one knows.

5. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) The Rig Veda.
(d) Jain Sacred text.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?

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

3. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?

4. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

5. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?

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