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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. Of what is the Florence Foundling Hospital the first according to Boorstin?
(a) Romantic buildings.
(b) Classical buildings.
(c) Gothic buildings.
(d) Renaissance buildings.

2. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?
(a) That none are undeservedly remembered.
(b) That undeserving books are often remembered.
(c) That the future is full of meaningless books.
(d) That most deserve to be forgotten.

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

4. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To make something out of nothing.
(b) To free man from God.
(c) To create gods.
(d) To do God's will.

5. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?
(a) Knowing how to survive.
(b) Knowing what you do not know.
(c) Knowing how to expand your power.
(d) Knowing how to confront difficult questions without flinching.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alphonse Daudet claim music is in his epigraph to Part 9?

2. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?

3. What does each Tale in the Canterbury Tales have according to Boorstin?

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

5. How did the orchestra change in the fifteenth century according to Boorstin?

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