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

2. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?
(a) English history.
(b) The New World.
(c) The English people.
(d) Future technologies.

3. What does Boorstin say is unique about Richard Wagner?
(a) His work was performed with modern orchestras for the first time.
(b) His music created new philosophies.
(c) His work embodied religious ideals in new ways.
(d) He was influential in both musical and literary history.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?

3. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?

4. When did Bruneleschi make the Foundling Hospital in Florence?

5. Of what is the Florence Foundling Hospital the first according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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