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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 is the difference between tragedy and comedy?
(a) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.
(b) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.
(c) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.
(d) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.

2. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?
(a) That it cannot be written.
(b) That it cannot be recalled.
(c) That it cannot be defined.
(d) That it cannot be offered in prayer.

3. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) To use for writing.
(b) Wicked people.
(c) People who ask too many questions.
(d) People who don't inquire into the world.

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

5. 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 externalized a dialogue that would normally have remained internal.
(c) Because the Divine Comedy was the first printed book after the Bible.
(d) Because the Divine Comedy represents a new cosmogony.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

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

3. Of what does Stonehenge consist?

4. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?

5. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?

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