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

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 make something out of nothing.
(c) To create gods.
(d) To free man from God.

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

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

5. What was the Romans' principal building material in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Wood.
(b) Marble.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?

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

3. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

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

5. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?

(see the answer key)

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