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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. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1700s.
(b) 1800s.
(c) 1600s.
(d) 1900s.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To free man from God.
(b) To make something out of nothing.
(c) To do God's will.
(d) To create gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?

2. What are hieroglyphs?

3. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?

4. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?

5. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?

(see the answer key)

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