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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, Sections 27-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?
(a) Visual arts.
(b) Technology.
(c) Music.
(d) Literature.

2. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Pneuma.
(b) Nomos.
(c) Logos.
(d) Techne.

3. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?
(a) Man's ability to fill a void with his own creation.
(b) Man's ability to enclose a sacred precinct.
(c) Man's ability to provide houses for his gods.
(d) Man's ability to defy gravity in building.

4. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?
(a) It was about the ancient past.
(b) It described the origins of the world.
(c) It was in dactylic hexameter.
(d) It was in prose.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?

2. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?

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

4. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?

5. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?

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