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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. What was the special element of Gothic architecture in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Color.
(b) Irregularity.
(c) Symmetry.
(d) Light.

2. What is a dithyramb?
(a) A poem that commemorates a battle.
(b) A song sung in honor of the god.
(c) A dance done to honor ancestors.
(d) A monument that commemorates a sacrifice.

3. Why is Dante described as the founder of modern literature in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Because the Divine Comedy is autobiographical.
(b) Because the Divine Comedy was the first printed book after the Bible.
(c) Because the Divine Comedy externalized a dialogue that would normally have remained internal.
(d) Because the Divine Comedy represents a new cosmogony.

4. 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 create gods.
(d) To do God's will.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?

2. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?

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

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

5. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?

(see the answer key)

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