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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 was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?
(a) It was in dactylic hexameter.
(b) It described the origins of the world.
(c) It was in prose.
(d) It was about the ancient past.

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

3. In what period was the symphony created?
(a) Baroque.
(b) Gothic.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Romantic.

4. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) People who ask too many questions.
(b) To use for writing.
(c) Wicked people.
(d) People who don't inquire into the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?

2. What did Cristofori invent?

3. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?

4. How does Boorstin characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?

5. In Boorstin's account, Michelangelo changed man from an imitation of nature to what?

(see the answer key)

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