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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 Christianity helped man discover?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Man's power to create.
(c) Man's power to control nature.
(d) The New World.

2. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?
(a) It became monstrous.
(b) It became more formal.
(c) It became more ideal.
(d) It became more natural.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?

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

3. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

4. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?

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

(see the answer key)

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