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

2. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?
(a) Cycles to develop through.
(b) An end to their sufferings.
(c) An explanation of where evil came from.
(d) A direction toward God.

3. What experience does Boorstin say Dante described in the Divine Comedy?
(a) Exile from life to death.
(b) The rites of passage.
(c) Birth into religion.
(d) Doubt and rediscovery of faith.

4. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because they are mystified by the power to create.
(b) Because artists are so often unruly.
(c) Because they live forever in their work.
(d) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.

5. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?
(a) Warfare and strife.
(b) Craft and technology.
(c) Drama, dance and music.
(d) Hunting and weaponry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?

2. What are hieroglyphs?

3. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?

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

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

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