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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. What fear did St. Ambrose's creation allay?
(a) Of drabness in church literature.
(b) Of buildings that rendered prayer impossible.
(c) Of unseemly literature entering the church canon.
(d) Of unsuitable music entering the church.

2. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(b) How mankind has invented itself.
(c) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.
(d) How mankind has progressed through the ages.

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

4. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?
(a) Rebellion against God.
(b) Fame.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Gain.

5. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?
(a) Because the ways of serving the spirits have all been forgotten.
(b) Because the spirits do not exist.
(c) Because they don't know how to serve each other.
(d) Because they cannot trust the sanctity of any texts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?

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

3. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

4. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

5. How does Boorstin characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?

(see the answer key)

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