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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 did William Henry Fox Talbot discover?
(a) A process for retouching negatives.
(b) A process for capturing sharp contrasts between black and white on photographic film.
(c) A process for using silver nitrate to make copies.
(d) A process for capturing images on glass.

2. 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 diabolical nature.
(d) Man's struggles with good and evil.

3. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?
(a) Visual arts.
(b) Technology.
(c) Literature.
(d) Music.

4. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) He lost his children.
(b) He nearly died.
(c) He lost his wife.
(d) He went blind.

5. What was depicted in the first images?
(a) The landscape.
(b) Abstract symbols.
(c) Men.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?

2. Advances in what field made it possible for calligraphy to be an art in Chinese culture according to Boorstin?

3. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?

4. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

5. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?

(see the answer key)

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