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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. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?
(a) The logic of Greek mathematicians.
(b) The charm of Greek philosophy.
(c) The awe of Hebraic religion.
(d) Greek grammar.

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

3. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because artists are so often unruly.
(b) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.
(c) Because they are mystified by the power to create.
(d) Because they live forever in their work.

4. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) Sacrifices.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) The fates.
(d) A covenant.

5. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?
(a) Man's power to create.
(b) Man's power to control nature.
(c) The New World.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?

2. What was the purpose of Don Quixote in Boorstin's account?

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

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

5. In what does Boorstin say Rabelais' book was an act of faith?

(see the answer key)

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