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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 characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?
(a) Melodramatic.
(b) Obscure.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Ascetic.

2. 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 kings, comedy with commoners.
(c) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.
(d) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.

3. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?
(a) Man's ability to provide houses for his gods.
(b) Man's ability to enclose a sacred precinct.
(c) Man's ability to fill a void with his own creation.
(d) Man's ability to defy gravity in building.

4. What does Boorstin say man discovered in Section 24: The Birth of the Spectator?
(a) That crowds have personalities of their own.
(b) That he need not be a participant all the time.
(c) That there is safety in crowds.
(d) That the universe does not have anything to do with him.

5. What does each Tale in the Canterbury Tales have according to Boorstin?
(a) A moral.
(b) A pregnant woman.
(c) A villain.
(d) A devil figure.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?

2. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?

3. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?

4. What does Boorstin say was absent from the Decameron?

5. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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