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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) He went blind.
(b) He lost his children.
(c) He nearly died.
(d) He lost his wife.

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

3. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?
(a) The Rig Veda.
(b) Jain Sacred text.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) The Odyssey.

4. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?
(a) Housing the dead pharaohs.
(b) Proclaiming the Egyptians' power as a people.
(c) Measuring the progress of the heavens.
(d) Challenging the gods.

5. Into what did Boethius want to inject Greek wisdom?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Technology.
(c) Politics.
(d) Warfare.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

2. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?

3. What experience does Boorstin say Dante described in the Divine Comedy?

4. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

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

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