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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. Mozart composed eight symphonies, four divertimentos and some sacred works in a few months at what age?
(a) 11.
(b) 22.
(c) 4.
(d) 16.

2. How does Boorstin characterize Of Education?
(a) A morality tale about experience and wisdom.
(b) A farce about religious education.
(c) A manifesto of humanism.
(d) A satire on learning.

3. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?
(a) That a thing has not happened until it has been described.
(b) That writing is a weak man's refuge from the tyranny of events.
(c) That written accounts are only valuable in settling disputes between people.
(d) That writing is just the poor afterimage of a lived reality.

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

5. What was the special element of Gothic architecture in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Irregularity.
(b) Symmetry.
(c) Color.
(d) Light.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?

2. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?

3. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?

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

5. Into what did Boethius want to inject Greek wisdom?

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