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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 depicted in the first images?
(a) Animals.
(b) Men.
(c) Abstract symbols.
(d) The landscape.

2. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?
(a) The origins of the universe.
(b) The existence of evil.
(c) Death.
(d) The nature of physical matter.

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

4. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?
(a) Man's power to create.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Man's power to control nature.
(d) The New World.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?

2. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?

3. What did Cristofori invent?

4. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?

5. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

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