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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 governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) The fates.
(b) A covenant.
(c) Sacrifices.
(d) The Old Testament.

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

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

4. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?
(a) A direction toward God.
(b) An end to their sufferings.
(c) An explanation of where evil came from.
(d) Cycles to develop through.

5. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?
(a) Autobiographical.
(b) Sacred.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Panoramic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?

2. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?

3. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?

4. When did opera develop in Europe?

5. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?

(see the answer key)

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