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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 did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?
(a) Explore the territories around Greece.
(b) Provide a foundation for mathematical logic.
(c) Define Greek metaphysics.
(d) Glorify Greece.

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

3. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Kathenotheism.

4. What else did Thespis invent?
(a) The cult of Apollo.
(b) The dithyramb.
(c) The monologue.
(d) The dramatic mask.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

3. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

4. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?

5. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?

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