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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. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?
(a) Provide a foundation for mathematical logic.
(b) Define Greek metaphysics.
(c) Glorify Greece.
(d) Explore the territories around Greece.

2. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(b) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.
(c) How mankind has progressed through the ages.
(d) How mankind has invented itself.

3. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?
(a) Literature.
(b) Music.
(c) Technology.
(d) Visual arts.

4. What did Saint Ambrose invent?
(a) Stained glass windows.
(b) Christian hymns.
(c) Colored printing.
(d) Christian architecture.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?

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

5. What does Boorstin say is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?

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