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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 does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?
(a) Man's determination to find food sources.
(b) Man's desire to live forever.
(c) Man's determination to find origins.
(d) Man's attempt to measure and regulate his environment.

2. What does Boorstin say is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?
(a) To meditate but not to settle for any answer.
(b) Not to answer.
(c) To refer all questions to sacred texts.
(d) To trust whatever the heart says.

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

4. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?
(a) Gain.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Fame.
(d) Rebellion against God.

5. How does Boorstin characterize Philo of Alexandria's view of philosophy?
(a) He sees it as the language of human logic.
(b) He sees it as the handmaiden of theology.
(c) He sees it as the true religion.
(d) He sees it as a temptation to evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?

2. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

3. What does Boorstin say man discovered in Section 24: The Birth of the Spectator?

4. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?

5. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?

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