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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 does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?
(a) That undeserving books are often remembered.
(b) That the future is full of meaningless books.
(c) That most deserve to be forgotten.
(d) That none are undeservedly remembered.

2. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?
(a) Northern forests.
(b) Jewish synagogues.
(c) Greek temples.
(d) Roman temples.

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

4. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?
(a) The charm of Greek philosophy.
(b) The awe of Hebraic religion.
(c) Greek grammar.
(d) The logic of Greek mathematicians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are hieroglyphs?

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

3. When were the cave drawings discovered?

4. What was depicted in the first images?

5. Of what does Stonehenge consist?

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