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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 did Cristofori invent?
(a) The piano.
(b) The first recording device.
(c) The modern form of musical notation.
(d) The violin.

2. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.
(b) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(c) How mankind has progressed through the ages.
(d) How mankind has invented itself.

3. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Drama.
(d) Tragedy.

4. Of what does Stonehenge consist?
(a) An elongated cross.
(b) Two circles of stones.
(c) A stone temple and courtyard.
(d) Numerous figures carved in chalk on hillsides.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

2. What does Boorstin say Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?

3. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?

4. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?

5. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?

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