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

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

3. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Dadaism.

4. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?
(a) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.
(b) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.
(c) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.
(d) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.

5. What does Boorstin say artists began to see in modern art?
(a) Transcendent forms.
(b) Traditions.
(c) Platonic forms.
(d) Evanescent moments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?

2. Who was Boethius?

3. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?

4. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

5. What does Boorstin say is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?

(see the answer key)

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