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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 long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?
(a) A thousand years.
(b) Five hundred years.
(c) Two thousand years.
(d) A hundred years.

2. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?
(a) That a thing has not happened until it has been described.
(b) That written accounts are only valuable in settling disputes between people.
(c) That writing is just the poor afterimage of a lived reality.
(d) That writing is a weak man's refuge from the tyranny of events.

3. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To free man from God.
(b) To create gods.
(c) To do God's will.
(d) To make something out of nothing.

4. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?
(a) How to see God's will in events.
(b) How to distinguish God's way of knowing from Man's.
(c) How to live in a world without God.
(d) How to reinvent yourself as a religious person.

5. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?
(a) That it requires symbols of beauty.
(b) That it requires renunciation of the world.
(c) That it happens on its own.
(d) That it requires symbolic death, again and again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?

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

4. What are hieroglyphs?

5. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?

(see the answer key)

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