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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 does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?
(a) That it cannot be recalled.
(b) That it cannot be written.
(c) That it cannot be defined.
(d) That it cannot be offered in prayer.

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

3. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?
(a) Man's determination to find food sources.
(b) Man's determination to find origins.
(c) Man's attempt to measure and regulate his environment.
(d) Man's desire to live forever.

4. Who was Boethius?
(a) A Gothic architect.
(b) A counselor to King Theodoric.
(c) A Syrian poet.
(d) A philosopher of Rome.

5. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?
(a) Hunting and weaponry.
(b) Craft and technology.
(c) Drama, dance and music.
(d) Warfare and strife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?

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

3. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

4. What does Boorstin say was absent from the Decameron?

5. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?

(see the answer key)

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