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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 is the difference between tragedy and comedy?
(a) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.
(b) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.
(c) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.
(d) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.

2. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?
(a) The mystery of creation.
(b) The mystery of death.
(c) The mystery of warfare.
(d) The mystery of language.

3. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?
(a) How to live in a world without God.
(b) How to distinguish God's way of knowing from Man's.
(c) How to see God's will in events.
(d) How to reinvent yourself as a religious person.

4. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?
(a) 100 novellas.
(b) 31 poetic narratives.
(c) 24 books of narrative about war.
(d) A prolonged odyssey.

5. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?
(a) Power.
(b) Himself.
(c) Religion.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?

3. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?

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

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

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