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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. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?
(a) Northern forests.
(b) Greek temples.
(c) Roman temples.
(d) Jewish synagogues.

2. What does Boorstin say does the artist's job in photography?
(a) The image itself.
(b) Light.
(c) The developer.
(d) The machine.

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

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

5. What was the subject of Monet's art?
(a) His own perceptions.
(b) Human figures.
(c) Nature.
(d) Architecture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what period was the symphony created?

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

4. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?

5. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?

(see the answer key)

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