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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. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?
(a) As dangerous.
(b) As innate to human beings.
(c) As an echo of God's creation.
(d) As usurping Allah's prerogative.

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

3. What does Boorstin say was absent from the Decameron?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Morals.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Religion.

4. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(b) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(c) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(d) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.

5. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Monotheism.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Kathenotheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?

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

3. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?

4. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?

5. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

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