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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 Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?
(a) Time as cyclical.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The nature of divinity.
(d) The future.

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

3. Into what did Boethius want to inject Greek wisdom?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Politics.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Technology.

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

5. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?
(a) Literature.
(b) Visual arts.
(c) Music.
(d) Technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?

2. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?

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

4. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?

5. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?

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