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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 does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Kathenotheism.

2. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) Nature.
(b) The future.
(c) Immortality.
(d) God.

3. What else did Thespis invent?
(a) The cult of Apollo.
(b) The dithyramb.
(c) The monologue.
(d) The dramatic mask.

4. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?
(a) The church and the public.
(b) The military.
(c) The aristocratic court.
(d) The church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?

2. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

3. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?

4. Who was Boethius?

5. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?

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