View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9, Sections 47-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) Genius.

2. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Music.

3. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To free man from God.
(b) To make something out of nothing.
(c) To create gods.
(d) To do God's will.

4. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?
(a) Sacred.
(b) Panoramic.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Autobiographical.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

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

4. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 223 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample