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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11, Sections 57-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?
(a) As a prophet of communism.
(b) As the ultimate humanist historian.
(c) As a leading adventure novelist.
(d) As a pornographic philosopher.

2. In what does Boorstin say Rabelais' book was an act of faith?
(a) Language.
(b) Literary history.
(c) Culture.
(d) God.

3. What fear did St. Ambrose's creation allay?
(a) Of unseemly literature entering the church canon.
(b) Of drabness in church literature.
(c) Of unsuitable music entering the church.
(d) Of buildings that rendered prayer impossible.

4. Out of what did Milton create poetry in Boorstin's account?
(a) Man's difficulties with right and wrong.
(b) Man's adventures in choice.
(c) Man's struggles with good and evil.
(d) Man's diabolical nature.

5. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?
(a) Of the literary accomplishments Europeans brought to America.
(b) Of the coming technological changes in Western culture.
(c) Of European conquest of Native Americans.
(d) Of the future unification of mankind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?

2. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?

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

4. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?

5. Who was Boethius?

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