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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. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) Plotinus.
(c) St. Augustine.
(d) St. John of Damascus.

2. When did men begin to make images of themselves?
(a) Mesolithic period.
(b) Middle Paleolithic period.
(c) Early Paleolithic period.
(d) Upper Paleolithic period.

3. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?
(a) Fame.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Gain.
(d) Rebellion against God.

4. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?
(a) Jewish synagogues.
(b) Greek temples.
(c) Roman temples.
(d) Northern forests.

5. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(b) How mankind has progressed through the ages.
(c) How mankind has invented itself.
(d) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When were the cave drawings discovered?

3. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?

4. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?

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

(see the answer key)

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