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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7, Sections 31-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what does Boorstin say Rabelais' book was an act of faith?
(a) Literary history.
(b) God.
(c) Culture.
(d) Language.

2. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?
(a) A commitment to make people see it.
(b) Eyes to perceive it.
(c) An understanding of what the consequences will be, for the people who don't want to hear it.
(d) One to speak and one to listen.

3. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) St. John of Damascus.
(d) Plotinus.

4. 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 fill a void with his own creation.
(d) Man's ability to enclose a sacred precinct.

5. Who was Boethius?
(a) A philosopher of Rome.
(b) A Syrian poet.
(c) A Gothic architect.
(d) A counselor to King Theodoric.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?

2. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?

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

4. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

5. Who are the devas?

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