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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. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?
(a) Because they cannot trust the sanctity of any texts.
(b) Because the spirits do not exist.
(c) Because they don't know how to serve each other.
(d) Because the ways of serving the spirits have all been forgotten.

2. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?
(a) That history is made on the backs of common men.
(b) That life is short and craft is hard to learn.
(c) That the lives of the common people are themselves art.
(d) That a liar is the most honest of men.

3. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Techne.
(b) Pneuma.
(c) Logos.
(d) Nomos.

4. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?
(a) The biography of kings.
(b) The saga of empire.
(c) The historical novel.
(d) The fairy tale of history.

5. What metaphor does Boorstin say permeates Christian literature?
(a) Conversion.
(b) Death.
(c) Transformation.
(d) Pilgrimage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Of Education?

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

3. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?

4. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?

5. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?

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