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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 did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?
(a) It became more natural.
(b) It became monstrous.
(c) It became more ideal.
(d) It became more formal.

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

3. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?
(a) The Wars of the Roses.
(b) The discovery of the New World.
(c) Developments in the medieval church.
(d) The plague.

4. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) The beginning of language.
(c) Self-discovery.
(d) The beginning of religion.

5. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?
(a) Emulation of God.
(b) Perfection of human nature.
(c) Replacement of God.
(d) Heroic beauty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What experience does Boorstin say Dante described in the Divine Comedy?

3. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?

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

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

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