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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. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?
(a) The mystery of death.
(b) The mystery of language.
(c) The mystery of warfare.
(d) The mystery of creation.

2. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?
(a) The symmetries in nature.
(b) The ideals of the philosophers.
(c) The human body.
(d) The harmony of the spheres.

3. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) People who don't inquire into the world.
(b) People who ask too many questions.
(c) To use for writing.
(d) Wicked people.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

2. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?

3. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?

4. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?

5. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

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